I haven't watched any the Sharpe series in about ten years, but I picked two up from the library at random because I remembered them being so good. Unfortunately we watched this one first. Wow, that was pretty bad. The cheesy-ness factor was off the charts, and both the plot and some of the character reactions were way off base. My husband and I both called movie fouls on this one at several points. I seriously thought maybe I had remembered wrong and they were all this bad. Thankfully the other episode I borrowed was Sharpe's Eagle and my movie-addicted hubby convinced me to watch it. And so there was a happy ending and my faith in the overall goodness of BBC miniseries was restored.
But this one can be skipped with no loss.
But this one can be skipped with no loss.