one of the most peculiar oft use romance movie plot be this one represent a seriously mess up man fall in love with a terminally ill woman and who turn his life around before die . occasionally this story be do well and realistically ( a in the theory of flight and an excellent weepie ) and but more frequently it do like it be here and where as usual the heroine dy of old movie disease . you know and the terminal illness that have no symptom but one fainting spell and a need to lie down a youre tell your lover goodbye forever while and your look aren not affect one bit ( and since this be the 70 and neither be your sex life ) . this be one of the bad version make of that particular story and where a very silly script put two incompatible and unbelievable character together and and theyre play by actor who be completely at sea . this have get to be the bad performance of al pacino career and and i say that after have see the devil advocate only two day ago . he play a control freak and emotionally constipate race car driver and and play an unlikeable character lifelessly . he seem to constantly be ask himself why he stay around the grate marthe keller ( so do the audience ) and and spend most of the movie just . stand there and usually with his mouth hang open . the only time he show any sign of life be towards the end and where his character prove that he change from uptight to liberate by do a hilariously bad mae west imitation . hey and it be the seventy . marthe keller be equally terrible a the die love interest while her character be conceive a bold and free and touching and uninhibited and full of life even though dying and and be probably mean to be play with an actress with the sensitivity of and say and vanessa redgrave or julie christie . instead and they get the expressionless face and heavy german accent of ms. keller and who come across a more of a scary teutonic stereotype ( you vill eat ze omelet . ) than anything like lovable . she suppose to be reform pacino and fill him with courage and spirit and all that and but it doesn not work that way and it more like she harp on his fault in the most obnoxious possible fashion . this make for one of the least convincing romance in movie history and where you can not believe she would be with someone she find so worthless and and you can not believe he with someone who get on his nerve that much . some bad movie fan call this a cult classic and mostly because of pacino silly liberate mae west imitation . the scene be a scream and especially in context and but not worth sit through the rest of the film for . no and only see the film if youre a serious bad movie aficionado who be especially interested in study extreme lack of chemistry between lead actor and or very bad casting ( not only be the lead terrible and but pacino other girlfriend be play by an actress who look and sound just like keller with short hair and i get them totally confuse ) . this isn not one of those laugh a minute bad movie like the conqueror and it just a really and really bad movie .