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Russell Crowe in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World", 2003.Courtesy 20th Century Fox It’s a bit of cheating to characterize Peter Weir’s 2003 high-seas masterpiece, its plot a mashup of Patrick O’Brian’s wildly popular Aubrey-Maturin novels, as underappreciated. Those who love this film love it fiercely, but they are too few in numbers, and once in a while, a smart repertory programmer will bring it to the big screen—just not often enough. Russell Crowe stars as Jack Aubrey, a captain in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars; Paul Bettany is Stephen Maturin, a physician and naturalist who’s his closest friend and foil. These two bicker and spar like a married couple, but their affection and regard for one another is never in question. [_Master and Commander_](https://time.com/archive/6669995/movies-the-bold-man-and-the-sea/) is a gentleman’s action movie, sometimes loud but never noisy, always favoring gallantry over garishness. In the year of its release, I saw this movie four times before it left theaters. I dreamt about it. There’s just something about men at sea—drawn to the ocean’s allure and adventure, but also fully at the mercy of its cruelty—that I find profoundly moving. Weir captures that mood perfectly in this gorgeous, beautifully detailed historical epic. 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