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• Actors: Ioan Gruffudd
• Directors: C.S. Forester
• Run Time: 100.0 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000E4OSYG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #601,999 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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The Mutiny: the year is 1802. Sailing abroad the HMS Renown, Hornblower is eagerly anticipating his latest assignment: subduing the pirate fleet preying on British shipping in the West Indies. Before long, however, it becomes clear that the Renown's tyrannical captain (David Warner) is dangerously unbalanced, forcing Hornblower to take action that thereatens not only his naval career....but his life as well (From back cover of the video)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Just not my cup of tea, April 13, 2008

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mutiny (C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower--The Adventure Continues) (VHS Tape)

I think many people will love this. It shows men exploring a frontier. Those who love period pieces will love seeing men in the hats and clothes that Napoleon used to wear. This flick could have a very receptive audience.

Still, this film was about a European crew travelling to the West Indies in the early 1800s. When I think of all the indigenous people who died and my ancestors, Africans, who were enslaved, I can't get excited about the "adventurers" who played a role in causing these two tragedies.

There is a universal theme in this work, knickers aside. This work deals with being forced to obey a superior who is wrong, and potentially insane. My sense of fairness was horribly grated in watching the captain of this ship. Sometimes a villain is not one you "love to hate;" it's just one who gets on yo' nerves bad.

Again, I didn't enjoy this film, but I am sure that many others would.