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Re: Watched Master and Commander tonight

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Victor Khomenko

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In Reply to: Re: Watched Master and Commander tonight posted by EBerlin on November 16, 2004 at 18:49:59:

Well, we are obviously not talking about some artistic endevour, just hopefully an edge-of-your-seat advanture film. It wasn't.
It completely lacked any tension or intrigue. No mystery, no unexpected... just one cliche after another, all professionally quilted together.
For a great battle film it fell way too short - it most definitely wasn't a Waterloo or War and Peace. And since that was its main claim to fame it had little else to offer. It didn't have the excitement of better action films like Ronin.
So I thought overall it was a solid C. Maybe B-.

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Re: Watched Master and Commander tonight - EBerlin 13:16:25 11/17/04 (0)
OK, I see what you're saying. I guess I just saw it differently. I think it transcended it's genre and worked as a character study that merged with and into a certain amount of action. In other words I thought it succeeded at being more (or less) than the typical action/adventure film. To each his own...
Elliot

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