Condemned by the critics and shunned by the paying public, this rambling American Independence film helped to sink the British production company Goldcrest that backed it. Not even the presence of Al Pacino, then in a career low point, could create enough box-office interest. Director Hugh Hudson certainly has a great visual style (witness his earlier 'Chariots of Fire' and 'Greystoke') but a ludicrous script with huge moments of incoherence delivers the death-blow here. Among the more bizarre castings are pop singer Annie Lennox and comedian Robbie Coltrane.


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