21.   This funny and involving film presents its well-drawn characters to us pretty much the way we would encounter them in life.

22.   Violence acknowledged, the film does present provocative issues in an intriguing manner.

23.   Visually the film presents an epic vision of modern agricultural society as a contradictory world of high technology and raw instinct.

24.   But even safety film can present problems.

25.   Since the low-budget film presented little risk of financial loss, they agreed.

26.   The film potentially presented Jim Carrey with another shot at serious acting respectability.

27.   In Northern Ireland, cinema owners were given a preview last week for their views on whether the film presented security risks.