With films such as Rush and Senna one believes that it is possible to make motorsport movies that are realistic, reasonably accurate and enjoyable. Unfortunately Le Mans 66 fails to deliver. While the acting of Bale as Ken Miles is excellent and the characterisation of Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari are entertaining almost all other performances miss out - even Matt Damon. The close-up racing scenes are terrible! Most of the drivers spend their time looking sideways at cars alongside them rather than at the track. They also watch a strange instrument that appears to show the speed in mph! Really!!! When did anyone put a speedometer into a racing car? It doesn't tell you anything and it would distract the driver. The Ferrari drivers are not given any dialogue so they make up for it with evil smirks taken from a 1920's horror film. The Ford drivers are even less lucky - you don't see them at all! Not even Denny Hulme who shared Miles's car. The racing at Le Mans was probably the most boring part of this over-long soap opera. Someone should have decided whether this is a sports docu-drama or a film exploring the relationships between the key players ... Ferrari, Ford, Miles, Shelby. It failed to decide between the two. As the old joke goes - what do you get if you ask a committee to design a horse? A camel.