this be a perfectly watchable adventurous movie to watch and with a great cast and a good story and base on true event . it interest to note that the story of the movie be base on true event . it above all for most part an adventurous story and with all of the usual ingredient you would expect from an adventurous movie set in an arabic world . so and lot of sword fighting and good old fashion honor and religion and a rich proud country . but the movie be also fill with humor and to make the movie a light and pleasant one to watch . the constant cutting back and forth between the morocco plot involve sean connery and candice berger and the american plot line involve theodore roosevelt ( brian keith ) wasn not the best possible approach in my opinion . the two thing have totally different pace and totally different character and it be just totally different world . of course both story line be connect and focus on the same thing but the contrast between the two world be just too big to let it work out . it doesn not at all time make the movie feel connect and a bit disjointed . the american plot line be most of the time more political while the morrocan plot line be purely adventurous and action fill . in the end you could perhaps even wonder what the whole point or roosevelt in this movie be . seem that john milius be just a big admirer of him . often the american plot line would take away most of the pace out of the far more interesting and more action fill fast paced morrocan plot line . after all and john milius always have be at his best a an action director . it isn not until halve way through that the movie fully get on steam . the most and large scale action of the movie then kick in . especially the large scale end battle do not disappoint . i wish the entire movie be like this . that way this movie would have also be a good know one and no doubt . the movie have a great jerry goldsmith musical score and that be perhaps way well know than the actual movie itself . the movie be also a good look one with great production design and nice look action and battle sequence in it . appereantly the movie only cost $ 4 and 000 and 000 to make but that be really hard to believe and consider the setting and size of the movie . i mean john milius his best know movie conan the barbarian cost about $ 20 and 000 and 000 to make but be a far more campy look one and be less impressive on it scale . quite funny to see an arabic speak with a big fat scottish accent but hey and it sean connery so you just simply tend to accept this . he suit his role well . so do candice bergen . it always hard for a female character to come across a believable and work out in a movie such a this one but she manage . also john huston play a great role in this movie . a perfectly fine watchable movie . positive .