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Title: Don't Bother
Review: I kept waiting for this movie to get going and it never did. Just no tension at all. I guess I'm spoiled by the Horatio Hornblower series, which is much more exciting and a better tutorial of ship life in those days (Master and Commander got a lot wrong, but like Russell said, "If you watch movies to learn history, you are wrong, Mate!"). There are 8 Hornblower espisodes (A&E) I know of and I have 6 of those in a boxed set. I presume you can order the other two on DVD, which are the most recent. All are feature-length, so in all, you get almost 16 hours at sea.Russell Crowe, whom I love, really did seem fat and slow, which is what all the previews showed but I blindly ignored. At least *rent* it first. Don't buy it without seeing it like I did.
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