![]() ![]() ![]() Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and his ship's surgeon, amateur naturalist and, in the books at least, intelligence agent Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany). The center of the O'Brian novels is the relationship between two men, the indomitable man of war Capt. But if it's so important, why does Weir keep shunting it aside, even losing contact with it as other, lesser stories take precedence? He even puts the hunt for the devious Acheron on pause to make room for a bird-watching expedition! Only when the bird-watcher stumbles upon the Acheron at harbor does Weir remember what the movie is about. The worst example is the film's narrative framework - a long cat-and-mouse sea hunt between the British ship HMS Surprise and a faster, meaner, bigger Frenchy called the Acheron that is presented in the early going as a matter of utmost, almost overwhelming importance. Thus the thing feels weirdly overstuffed, as stories keep stumbling into and over one another or are buried beneath the arrival of other stories. Lots of material, but nobody has done much discriminating. Derived from two novels in the famed Patrick O'Brian series set aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic era, it also pulls in snatches from other O'Brian books and additions from the imaginations of director Peter Weir and his co-scenarist John Collee. Everything is important, which comes to mean that nothing is important. It comprises too many equal parts, and they tangle each other up. He hasn't discriminated - and that, after all, is his job.Īnd thus the much ballyhooed and ultra-handsome "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" suffers from what might be called colonitis. In other words, someone, namely the author, hasn't been able to make up his mind which half is more important. A colon connotes equal weight for both halves of the entity surrounding it. Based on author Patrick O'Brian's series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the story is set during the Napoleonic Wars.A good rule of thumb is, avoid movies with colons in the title. In the course of the characters' epic journey, the movie travels the world - from the coast of Brazil to the storm-tossed waters of Cape Horn, south through ice and snow, to the far side of the world, to the remote shores of The Galapagos Islands. It's a mission that can make his reputation - or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured, Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he pursues a high-stakes chase across two oceans, to intercept and capture his foe. Surprise, when they're suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. Screenshots from another edition of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Blu-rayĬaptain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and ship's doctor Stephen Maturin are on board their ship, the H.M.S. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Blu-ray ![]()
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