He does a superb job here of re-creating the period detail of the sea battles and human struggles during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. His best friend, however, Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon played by Paul Bettany, begins to question whether Jack has not become obsessed with defeating the superior ship and her sneaky, resourceful captain.ĭirector Peter Weir is a master craftsman at creating atmosphere, whether it be an Amish village, a crazy reality TV show, or the strange religious beliefs of Australian aborigines. Aubrey pursues the Acheron around “the Horn” of South America. The Acheron comes out of a fog to almost blast the Surprise out of the water.Īfter barely escaping by hiding in the fog itself, the Surprise hobbles to a nearby shoal, where Captain Aubrey intends to put his ship back into action. The Surprise has orders to stop the Acheron from making its way to the Pacific Ocean where it can find supplies and pirated booty for her French emperor, Napoleon, who controls most of Europe. The movie opens in 1805 with the Captain of the HMS Surprise, Jack Aubrey, almost seeing his ship sunk by a French Napoleon ship, the Acheron. It’s certainly better than SCARY MOVIE 3 and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which have been attracting confused teenagers by the millions. Directed by Peter Weir (THE TRUMAN SHOW and WITNESS), it’s one of the more excellent features in 2003 that’s appropriate for teenagers. MASTER AND COMMANDER, which is subtitled THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, is a rousing sea adventure starring Russell Crowe in another fine action role. (BBB, CCC, Pa, PPP, AP, H, LL, VV, N, AA, D, M) Very strong moral worldview plus some very strong Christian elements such as positive references to Jesus Christ, bodily resurrection, the Last Judgment, the Bible, forgiveness, the entire Lord’s Prayer, man twice says God bless you, and man says God speed to another man, and superstitious pagan content where men think one man is cursed, and they drive him to suicide, and movie strongly supports patriotism, but hero’s friend questions his personal motives and says patriotism often leads to tyranny, and one character seems to have the beginnings of a humanist scientific ideology when ship visits islands where Darwin forged his humanist theories on evolution, but character accepts the existence of God about 12 obscenities, including one “f” word, one GD, five or six light exclamatory profanities, and sailors get seasick and vomit during one storm strong action violence and implied medical violence includes sea battles such as shells hitting ships and hurting men, man suffers head wound, gunshot wound, implied amputation, some blood on men injured during war, man removes bullet from his own stomach, suicide, sword fights, hand-to-hand combat, sailors fire guns and rifles at one another during battle scene, and images of blood on floor while doctor operates on wounded soldiers no sex, but captain says, “To wives and sweethearts, may they never meet” and officer commands sailor off screen to let go of woman from bay that ship briefly visits upper male nudity alcohol use and drunkenness smoking and, nothing else really objectionable.
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