A good movie

Even though Peter Weir is a very highly regarded director, he has made only 2 movies since 'The Truman Show' was released in 1998. I thought that 'Master and Commander' was rather disappointing and even though his last movie was better, I still thought it was rather underwhelming. Indeed, even though this true (which might be a fake) story sounded really amazing on paper, I'm afraid it wasn't so amazing as a film. Basically, you follow those men and this young woman walking for miles and that's about it. Every once in a while, it seems that they will run out of water or food but, in the nick of time, they always find salvation. This pattern was repeated several times and, at some point, it got really tiresome above all since you already knew that they would survive. Nothing much else occurred even when they encounter Saoirse Ronan, they just kept endlessly on walking. The weird thing is that even though there were not so many characters and even though you spend more than 2 hours with them, you never get to really know them at all and, as a result, they were all reduced to some stereotypes (the leader, the old wise man, the cook/artist, the funny guy, the priest, the thief and the innocent girl). Still, it remains an impressive tale, the directing was solid and the cast was pretty good so I more or less enjoyed it but I think I'm rather generous with my rating here. To conclude, it remains a decent flick and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Peter Weir's work.

7/10