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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Double Disc Edition) [2003]
 
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Double Disc Edition) [2003]
DVD ~ Russell Crowe|Paul Bettany
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Product details
  • Actors: Russell Crowe|Paul Bettany
  • Directors: Peter Weir
  • Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, PAL
  • Language English, French, Portuguese
  • Region: Region 2 ( DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 5 April 2004
  • Run Time: 139 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (76 customer reviews)
  • DVD Features:
    • Main Language: English
    • Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital DTS
    • Featurette - 1. THE HUNDRED DAYS - Making of
    • 2. IN THE WAKE OF O'BRIAN - Peter Weir on Directing
    • Documentary - 1. CINEMATIC PHASMIDS - Special Effects Documentary
    • 2. Sound Design Documentary
    • HBO First Look Special
    • 6 Deleted Scenes
    • THE LAST BATTLE - Multi Angle Studies
    • Canon Sound
    • 4 Stills Galleries
  • ASIN: B00008W64E
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,223 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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Reviews
Amazon.co.uk Review
Aside from some gripping battles and a storm sequence to rival anything seen on screen, Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is as much about daily shipboard life during the Napoleonic era--especially the relationship between Captain Aubrey (Russell Crowe) and Doctor Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany)--as it is about spectacle. Aubrey is a powerful figure whose experience and strength of character commands unwavering trust and respect from his crew; Crowe seems in his element naturally enough. Bettany, though, is his match on screen as Aubrey's intellectual foil. Director Weir successfully translates their relationship from novel to screen by subtly weaving in their past history and leaving viewers--whether they've read Patrick O'Brian's books or not--to do the thinking.

Although the film's special effects ate up a huge budget they never overtake the drama, with characterisation and painstaking attention to historical accuracy taking centre stage. Matching action to detail, drama to humour, and special effects to well-sketched characters, Master and Commander is a deeply satisfying big-screen experience, breathing a bracing gust of sea air into Hollywood megabuck filmmaking. --Laura Bushell

DVD Description
Based on the series of books by Patrick O'Brian and directed by Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World follows the fate of the crew of the HMS Surprise - a British Naval ship on a frantic search for their adversary, the French Man O’ War Acheron during the Napoleonic war. Academy Award winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) stars as Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy. The charismatic Captain rouses the patriotism of the crew while wrestling with issues of honour, pride, duty, sacrifice and loyalty. With the true passion he holds for his vocation, he consistently employs ingenious tactics to engage his prey - a much larger and better-equipped French ship.

After the French ship almost sinks them in an early battle, the ship’s surgeon and Aubrey’s closest friend Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany – The Heart of Me, A Knight’s Tale) cautions him about letting revenge cloud his judgement. With the HMS 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, refusing to accept defeat at the hands of the French at any cost. It’s a mission that can make his reputation – or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. In the course of the Surprise’s epic journey, the crew travel 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 and across to the remote shores of The Galapagos Islands. A true camaraderie develops between the men with the help of rum, music and the regaling of tall tales!

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