Master and Commander

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, is definitely not my kind of movie. It was okay, but it created an Oscar flutter, I can't imagine that! It is a good education about the times when sailors were like astronauts in the sixties or computer geeks of the late nineties, when sea was the final frontier, before it gave way to space and the internet.

Russell Crowe fits the role as the captain of the English, other performances are okay, it seemed a bit put together for the movie kinda script, a tad rehearsed perhaps. If you want to see a real movie of sailors and the life at sea I'd still suggest the German submarine classic, Das Boot.