(Edited highlights of the panel's review)

Watch the whole programme - 5 April 2002

James Patterson
Here is my advice to potential ticket buyers out there. Stay home and watch the Falklands Play or rent a movie called Deep. Arnold is preposterous in the role. He cannot go incognito through the jungles and little villages and pretend that no-one is noticing that it's this very large white man on the scene.

Elaine Showalter
This film has just got slaughtered. These are the worst reviews I have ever seen on a movie that's been released. It's real overkill here. This is an action film, nothing much to it. Don't get your knickers in a twist. There's a great little part in the middle that I thought was very interesting. I thought it was a perfectly reasonable way to spend a couple of hours en route to the pub. People are making too much of its political implications.

Paul Morley
I thought it was a great big condom that's going to go straight to eight-track cartridge. Leguizamo is interesting in the middle. He says things that people are thinking. This big white man will blend in easily, and you ask how can it happen. I think it's pornographic. The scene with the snake and the human being caused a few people to walk out where I was. How can someone with pro-American values and family be involved in a film that contains such a scene? It's absolutely disgusting.