

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The courage to do the impossible lies in the hearts of men.
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $150M
- Box office
- $211.6M
- Language
- French
- ship
- navy
- based on novel or book
- surgeon
- royal navy
- historical fiction
- period drama
- napoleonic wars
- naturalist
- frigate
- self surgery
- sea battle
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1314 Nov 2003
United KingdomGB
- Premiere12A17 Nov 2003
- Theatrical12ALondon21 Nov 2003
- Theatrical12A28 Nov 2003
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM4 Dec 2003
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A14 Nov 2003
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical5 Feb 2004
AustriaAT
- Theatrical27 Nov 2003
BahrainBH
- Theatrical10 Dec 2003
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1626 Nov 2003
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1430 Jan 2004
ChileCL
- Theatrical13 Feb 2004
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical6 Feb 2004
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+11 Dec 2003
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World was released on 14 November 2003.
Audience reviews
6- J9/10
John Chard
1/20/2019
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 Patrick O'Brian. The film takes place during 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars and finds Captain Jack Aubrey and the crew of British frigate HMS Surpr…
- P10/10
Peter McGinn
4/4/2020
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 written a lot of great sea tales, but this one confused me. I felt like checking to see if the pages were in the correct order. The story seems simpli…
- R8/10
r96sk
8/12/2022
I enjoyed <em>'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'</em>. The early scenes are surprisingly (given the relatively close release dates) similar to fellow 2003 release <em>'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl'</em>, with a hidden enemy ship spotted amid foggy conditions and then one person spots unexpected cannon fire and tells others to duck... there are even main characters named Jac…
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/14/2023
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 dripping out of the pours of every seen, so much so that he doesn't allow Paul Bettany to shine and he's a good actor in his own right, as is James D'…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/3/2023
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 whaling fleet during the Napoleonic wars. Coming up against an equally courageous and skilful French captain and engaging in a lethal game of cat and …
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