The interlocking themes of sport, colonialism and the struggle against racial prejudice add up to a celluloid Molotov cocktail, and director Stevan Riley and producers John Battsek and Charles Steel have hurled it with unerring accuracy. They’ve pruned the narrative down to its core, and avoided cluttering it with distracting nuances or shades of grey. As they tell it, this was the best cricket team of all time, it wrote the book on massed batting and bowling firepower, and it gave the fragmented island nations of the West Indies a sense of cohesive identity for the first time in their history. Contributions from Bunny Wailer, author and teacher Frank I, historian Hilary Beckles and others paint in some social background, while the reggae and calypso soundtrack keeps up its own running commentary.