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Title: Hornblower was not a defiant jerk....
Review: As a Hornblower fan for many decades, I am very disappointed in this movie. Ioan Gruffud portrays a Hornblower who is almost a modern high school delinquent - the kind who walks in front of your car when you drive near a public HS to show he is "cool" or a "big man". Whereas this may appeal to someone who sports a "Question Authority" sticker, it is not the Hornblower I know. Overall, it seems that the movies did not do too well with one of the greatest heroes of fiction - but at least Gregory Peck's Hornblower was decent - this one is not quite the material from which a Commodore Hornblower is made... The kind of person portrayed by Gruffud is, above all, childish (as we all know, "cool" is the same as "cute"). Perhaps the other ones with this Ioan Gruffud are better, but these two are bad enough that they keep me from buying the others.
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