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Russell Crowe (Actor), Paul Bettany (Actor), Peter Weir (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Format	Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Special Edition, Collector's Edition See more
Contributor	Lee Ingleby, Robert Pugh, Max Pirkis, Chris Larkin, James D'Arcy, Richard Pates, Patrick O'Brian, John Collee, Peter Weir, Jack Randall, Russell Crowe, Edward Woodall, Billy Boyd, Max Benitz, Paul Bettany See more
Language	English, French, Spanish
Runtime	2 hours and 18 minutes

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When a sudden attack by a French warship inflicts casualities and severe damage upon his vessel, Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey (Crowe) of the British Royal Navy is torn between duty and friendship as he embarks on a thrilling, high-stakes chase across two oceans to intercept and capture the enemy at any cost. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture!

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If you have any interest in how this impressive-looking film was put together, you must grab the Collector's Edition. The disc of extras is universally intriguing, smoothly presented, and in depth. As good as the 70-minute documentary is--and it is an excellent survey of how the film was made--a 30-minute segment on how the various effects were combined (ocean shoot, tank shoot, CGI and models) is stunning. There's an equally impressive piece on the Oscar-winning sound and an interactive cannon firing demonstration. The director of the DVD features, David Prior, uses split screens and on-screen notes to efficiently give an abundant amount of information. There is no commentary track, but the film's director, Peter Weir, has 20 minutes to talk about his approach to the film with "In the Wake of O'Brian." Add a dandy multi-camera segment, 20 minutes of deleted scenes (mostly dealing with shipboard life), dense galleries, a good dose of classical music, and a 28-page booklet, and you have an extras package you will want to show others. Ironically, one of the film's two Oscar-winners, cinematographer Russell Boyd, is only mentioned in passing. --Doug Thomas

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.75 x 1 inches; 5.6 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 24543117575
Director ‏ : ‎ Peter Weir
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Special Edition, Collector's Edition
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 18 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2004
Actors ‏ : ‎ Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Edward Woodall
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001DI0FI
Writers ‏ : ‎ John Collee, Patrick O'Brian, Peter Weir
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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C. Gray

Masterful on every level

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2022

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My father's family were all of the sea off of coastal Maine, so I love that part of this movie. I remember when it came out, I was sort of nonchalant about it. Twenty some years later I am amazed and so grateful for REAL film making and REAL story telling. I am so weary of the fake. Star Wars was wonderful because it created a magical world of make believe. I remember watching the Rat Patrol actor in Jason and the Argonauts when clay animation was in its infancy. It was brilliant. But in the last twenty years we have been fed a steady diet of meadow muffins and road apples as we say in my childhood home of Montana. No real story, just a bunch of violent nonsense with super duper special effects. NO THANK YOU. I watched this film the other night and was struck by how real and beautiful it was. This is story telling and filmmaking at its BEST. All while I was watching it, I was thinking about how many of my ancestors fought for my country, how many of them cut their teeth on the time when they pitted themselves against nature and counted on their fellow mates to hold them steady. This is a story of men at their best, and their weakest, and the true meaning of friendship amongst men. As a mother of sons, this movie is quite meaningful to me so many years later. Real men kept my sons steady after their father died too young and real men are in this movie front and center. Thank you to everyone who made this movie, such a timeless testament to excellent storytelling and to the best qualities in men. God bless you all.

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Improves each time I watch it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2021

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Devoted readers of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick OBrien (“The canon” written by “POB” for those in the club) have read (and listened to Patrick Tull read) the entire 21-book series several times. Given Hollywood’s record of Disneyfying beloved novels, one can be excused for being less than enthusiastic.
Thus, like every other POB aficionado, I approached Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with trepidation. What film could convey even a hint of the rich depths of the novels? How many "screen adaptations" have fallen short by trivializing the characters, or over simplifying the relationships, situations , and resolutions?
I’d been mildly though pleasantly surprised by the Lord of the Rings movies (even though the characters were frightfully simple compared to those portrayed by Tolkien). So, somewhat faithful commitment to the spirit of the books -- if not the letter -- was possible.
First, it’s important to understand that the while the setting of the canon is the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic era, the human condition is the true subject. O'Brien charts Aubrey and Maturin's lives through the vagaries of fortune, friendships, difficult families, poverty and wealth, honor and shame, success and failure. The relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey, RN and Doctor Stephen Maturin remains the core of the work and is what makes the books so compelling.
Second, novels are meant to be read, and the reader must create in his or her mind the circumstances, the tone of voice, the time of day and all the other factors that come to mind as we read. Very often the author will use vague yet evocative language. Maturin’s love interest Diana is often described as “dashing” – which may evoke a very particular physical presence in one reader and not another. And so, each reader brings a host of memories that are either confirmed in film or –- more likely – contradicted. This is no way to make friends.
The first time I watched I was happily surprised by the way actors Russel Crowe and Paul Bettany portrayed Jack and Stephen (people I came to know so well after decades). While Bettany does not look Spanish and doesn’t sound Irish, is not “slight” or have "reptilian eyes,” his mannerisms and deep well of inner life and competence are apparent. Other roles are also somewhat miscast, such as Bonden (who is described a strapping bare-knuckle prizefighter), and others spot-on (Killick, Aubrey’s perpetually put-out foremast jack steward). But Crowe is absolutely convincing as Lucky Jack and commands the screen as Jack commanded a quarterdeck.
The storyline is a rather simple chase using vignettes culled from plots across several books. (Master and Commander was the first book of the series, early in Jack’s career when he was not yet a Captain and did not yet have Surprise). Nevertheless, the care and dedication to accuracy of the period was apparent from the opening montage. Every scene is perfectly framed. There is no sequence that seems out of place, awkward, or gratuitous. Even the hard, grizzled, superstitious seamen display moments of tenderness, solicitude, and grace.
On each successive viewing I do less comparing and more appreciating. Peter Weir’s film artfully conveys the spirit of the books while avoiding any single book. The film ignores Jack and Stephen’s life ashore, espionage, romance and dalliances, rambunctious family, scheming admirals, political intrigue, churlish mother in-law, dashing Diana, the horrible old Leopard, and the murderous Dutch 74 Waakzaamheid. We readers know the tapestry of situations and relationships, failures and triumphs behind the characters portrayed on film, and nothing the actors do contradicts our consciousness of these old friends. Nothing they do or say is anomalous to the people we have come to know.
And that may be the film’s greatest achievement. For while the film is masterfully shot with convincing action scenes and perfect framing; directed so that the actor’s glance speaks volumes; edited so that every ambient sound supports the narrative; and scored masterfully using both period and modern music to lovingly capture the mood. The film’s greatest accomplishment is what is does not do: it never panders, and it never breaks the trust of the loyal fan of the best historical novels yet written.

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Vincent E. Martin

I Didn't Want it to End!

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Bottom Line: In the final analysis, as the credit rolled I felt cheated; I wanted more or this suburb movie about naval action in the 19th century.

Master and Commander opens with the following caption: April 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe. Only the British Fleet stands before him. Oceans are now battlefields.

Directed by Peter Weir with screenplay by Weir and John Collee, Master and Commander is based on two novels by Patrick O'Brian, part of a twenty-book series of Royal Navy Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey's adventures spanning the later 18th - early 19th centuries.

This particular installment followed Captain Aubrey, superbly portrayed by Russell Crowe as he captains the 24 gun 6th Rate frigate HMS Surprise. Aubrey's orders are to intercept French 4th Rate 44-gun Frigate Acheron currently en-route to the Pacific Ocean with the intention of making war in those waters off the coast of Brazil. Aubrey is to either sink, burn, or take the French warship as a prize.

In the first five minutes of the movie however the larger, faster, more heavily armed Acheron draws first blood, when materializing out of a fog bank she delivers a devastating broadside to the HMS Surprise, damaging the ships bowstrip, mainmast, and rudder, severely crippling the ship. If it weren't for the same prevailing fog, the quick thinking of Aubrey and able rowers, the HMS Surprise would have surely been lost and well, the movie ended.

Against all opposition Aubrey decides not to sail home for a refit of his shattered vessel, but to effect repairs at sea in a quite little inlet off the Brazilian coast. Repairs completed the game of cat-and-mouse is taken up again as the HMS Surprise chases the Acheron around Cape Horn into the Great South Sea (Pacific), where she looses her mizzen topmast and a well liked seaman.

The chase final ends at the Galapagos Islands (of all places) where British whalers are currently plying their trade, creating the perfect backdrop for the Acheron to do her worst, and for the climatic battle scene to take place.

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As it unwinds, mostly onboard the HMS Surprise, the plot evolves into an extended game of cat-and-mouse: encounters with the aptly named Acheron as the "phantom ship" are in juxtaposition with prolonged glimpses into life onboard a 19th century Royal Navy Frigate. We are treated to little interaction with the French crew, save through spyglass. Most of the human interplay is reserved for Aubrey and his mixed crew of seasoned naval veterans, conscripts involuntarily impressed into service, young midshipmen, and powderboy's who are far too young to see battle.

Weir's concentration on the HMS Surprise and her crew brings home a realism seldom seen in Hollywood productions; indeed the battle scenes between the HMS Surprise and the Acheron seem cursory to the telling of the lives of men too harshly lived. And Weir's passion for detail is evident in every frame as he brings to life O'Brian's rich historical details -- the sailors' routine, the pettiness and superstitions, the grim realities of 19th-century navies, the realistic battle scenes, the blood, and horror, and heroism, the honor and devotion to duty and country, are all portrayed in a stark often macabre reality.

The cast is rich, varied, and too numerous to list in narrative, but the relationship between Aubrey and his old friend, and ships doctor, Stephen Maturin, portrayed by Paul Bettany is well worth exploring and receives the most attention throughout the movie. Maturim is Aubrey's alter ego, his rational voice, and his musical partner. It is through their music that we are treated to the two men's attempt to bring civility to an otherwise uncivilized pursuit.

But Maturin is Aubrey's intellectual equal (Aubrey's military mind and almost mindless devotion to duty is offset by Maturin's humanity, conscience and scientific curiosity). They are both endowed with a similar sense of honor, and know each other well enough--although we are not told from where their relationship sprang--to playfully, and oft-times earnestly challenge their respective positions, though Aubrey has to obvious upper hand; as captain the final word is his. Their friendship was made warm and believable by their obvious onscreen chemistry; the closeness they shared while locked in a battle of wills made me wish for the same kind of uncompromising male friendship in my life. Watching their verbal spars in the officer's mess and their infrequent musical duets together (Aubrey play the violin and Maturin plays the Cello) was for me clearly one of Master and Commander's greatest pleasures.

Though through necessity there is "nautical" speech peppered throughout Master and Commander, it is only used to lend realism to the story, and contemporary speech is used otherwise. The use of contemporary chatter is designed to keep the less nautical engaged in the movie drawing them deeper into the action, allowing them to care, and enveloping the story in a cloak of humanity as the HMS Surprise pursues the Acheron across two oceans.

In the final analysis, as the credit rolled I felt cheated; I wanted more; the movie ended just as the Aubrey and Maturin were once again engaged in play, and the ship was clearing the decks for action, once more in pursuit of the Acheron after Aubrey learns a prickly bit of information. This is testimony to the movies draw, it has everything one would expect from a high-seas adventure movie set in the 19th century--exhilarating battles, menacing weather conditions, honor, bravery, devotion to duty, treachery, superstition, God, and a wonderfully cast of characters that brings life onboard the HMS Surprise to a point where you can virtually taste and smell the salt laden sea spray on your lips and feel the fresh sea air on your skin.

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Philip Dawes

Master and Commander – brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 9, 2021

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Almost everything about the film earned 10 out of 10. The one flaw was the over-emphasis and excess of the heated argument between the Captain and ship’s doctor when the captain decided not to stay for a few days in the Galapagos Islands, as promised, for the doctor to pursue his naturalist hobby. The scene should have been reduced by 50%. Nevertheless, a touch of pure magic was added in another scene when the captain and ship’s doctor played a duet on violin and cello, for which each were given a few months tuition by master musicians prior to filming. The film certainly deserves a sequel.

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great adventure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 4, 2021

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I love historical adventure, and I love the young Russell Crowe, so what's not to like?
We saw this at the cinema on its release and loved the attention to detail and the storyline. the visuals are perfect and the tale of Brits against the French in the Napoleonic wars is a great background for sea battles and trickery. Background social history is fascinating e.g. the role of boys as young as 10 years old serving as officers, travelling to the Galapagos islands when the flora and fauna was unknown.
A real gem.

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Rappers

Authentic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 26, 2015

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Russell Crowe's finest hour, in Peter Weir's wonderfully authentic ship battle story between the British & French. The ship which was built by hand especially for the film, creaks and labours through the Pacific ocean as The British try to re-group from a surprise attack on them by the French. Crowe is superb, he allows a softness to Captain Aubrey, but still commands the utmost respect from his crew. Paul Bettany is also commendable in his portrayal of Dr Maturin. and it's his friendship with Aubrey which the story focuses on. It's not a pure action film, and dispenses with the hysterics of Crowe's previous hit Gladiator. This probably dented its success at the box office, as a sequel has never been filmed, despite the wealth of Patrick O'Brien stories to base it round. However, we are left with a splendid film that can be enjoyed again and again.

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J. E. G. Lee

Master and Commander DVD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 15, 2022

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I honestly found "Master and Commander" a really fascinating and absorbing movie.
The action and acting depicted the grim reality of wooden hulled men of war.
To me there was no sense of looking at distant ship models , the boats/ships included in the
making of the movie are of the period . To sum up I think this film is brilliant .

M. C. Williams

Maritime Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 5, 2009

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When I first heard of this film being made, I wondered if it might not be a turkey - I need not have worried! Crowe is fantastic as Jack Aubrey and is well supported by Paul Bettany, his naturalist ship's surgeon. I later found out that Crowe had spent two weeks aboard HMS Victory in Portsmouth Dockyard where he stubbornly learned about every aspect of life in the RN and their ships back in Nelson's day in preparation for this role! If only half today's so-called 'actors' did half as much preparation for their films!

I first viewed it whilst flying back from Hawaii and couldn't stop watching it throughout the flight - four times I think I saw it between San Francisco and Heathrow! It's a tremendous tribute to the O'Brien books and a welcome return to the swashbuckling films of yesteryear!

Being an ex-RN man myself, I think it was a shame that the producers didn't go for a sequel to coincide with the 2005 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar - that would've been tremendous! Hopefully, Crowe will reprise his role at some time in the future.

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