Al Pacino's accent blows, yes. Most people latch their feelings of its time of release to Christopher Nolan's re-working/remake of Insomnia. I thought it was perfectly serviceable then. It wasn't staggeringly great, but it was a good "studio picture with name actors" under the belt for Nolan. Re-watching it on Blu-ray the other night (and without having seen Inception), I really found myself favoring it a bit more than I'd recalled.