master and commander
Russell Crowe shows hes Master of the high seas Russel Crowe swaggers marvelously in the seafaring adventure "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. ... Based on a popular series of historical novels by Patrick OBrian, and set during the Napoleonic Wars, "Master and Commander" takes its audience on a bracing journey. ... ut "Master and Commander" isnt so much about battle — though its combat scenes are vivid and thrilling — than about the creation of a community on Aubreys ship. ... " And Weir, the Australian master of vaguely menacing atmosphere ("Picnic at Hanging Rock," "Witness," "The Truman Show"), creates an intricate world-within-a-world for him; its as if were peering through a spyglass.