There are several reasons this film sinks for me, the main one being the atrocious ADR job the sound department did on this film. There's also a long sequence with Al Pacino holding his wounded son and whispering in his ear - it made me very uncomfortable and Pacino's inarticulate mumbling was irritating. The love story between Kinski and Pacino is preposterous, and the fact that they happen to meet each other at some the Revolutionary War's most notorious battles is a hard pill to swallow. But I WILL hand it to the art department and production designers - everything looks very authentic. There's mud and filth covering everything you can imagine, and you can almost smell the reek of the dirty, sweaty mobs of people. The main two reasons I own this is because it's a Pacino film (and I'm a completist) and it's super rare (never before released on DVD, apparently anywhere - except for Greece and Saigon...where I got my copy from). I would say skip this film unless you're a Pacino, Kinski or Sutherland maniac.