What do you say about a twenty-four-year-old track star who died? If he's Steve Prefontaine, the long-distance runner who competed at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and held several American records, the answer is "plenty," Without Limits is the second film, following 1997's Prefontaine (a box-office flop), to tell the story of the Oregon rebel -- Pre to pals -- with a passion for starting a race up front and staying there.

Stifle that yawn. Prefontaine (with Jared Leto) was a dry retread of sports…