For England, for home, and for the prize!

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is directed by Peter Weir, it stars Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. It is spliced from various novels in the Aubrey–Maturin series written by...

This is a rousing sea yarn with great camera work, but it also shows comraderie and relationships in a realistic way on board a British fighting ship.

As happens sometimes but not always, I enjoyed this movie more than I liked the book it was based upon. O'Brian has ...

I enjoyed 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'.

The early scenes are surprisingly (given the relatively close release dates) similar to fellow 2003 release 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl', with a hidden enemy sh...

What you have here is Crowe still thinking that he's the greatest actor that ever lived.

That all takes away the fun of a movie that had the potential to be a high seas epic like, say, Captain Blood.

Peter Weir lets Crowe go crazy and you can almost taste the ego ...

This has shades of "Horatio Hornblower" to it, but is much grittier. Russell Crowe delivers a strong, convincing, portrayal of the doughty captain "Aubrey", in command of HMS "Surprise" and charged with tracking down a French privateer that is raiding the vital British ...

This is superbly crafted entertainment, the kind of filmmaking that reminds you what cinema can do when every element is working in concert. Peter Weir has gone to extreme lengths to create a cinematic world that absorbs the viewer completely, achieving that rare suspen...