this movie be promising represent my favorite actor in a historical drama during the independence war . it have memory from dance with wolf for the big prairie and indian and military fight and from barry lyndon for the british and candle light atmosphere . unfortunately and the script be awful represent the continuity of the story be lack ( cut with 5 month later while 3 year later ) and the romance be so ridiculous that it hard to believe in it represent america be a big country but the character keep bump at each other while above all and wait for the end and you understand how to kill a story ( imagine the same in titanic ) . sometimes and a bad script be save by a brilliant filmmaker . unfortunately bis and hudson be a poor one . he have already commit greystoke and i find again the same flaws represent no dynamic in scene and in edit and in score represent it be long and dull and flat . i know that this movie be a disaster for pacino career represent now i understand . finally and this last movie for 2006 be in the vein of this year for me represent a painful one .