"Master and Commander" is the way films should be made. Everything about this film is first class..... acting, storyline, music, sound, special effects, visual beauty, etc. etc. but what really makes this film by far and away the best seafaring film (maybe the best film) ever is 'AUTHENTICITY'. Brian Lavery, Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich was the Naval Adviser for this work of art, and it shows. You only have to read Lavery's "Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar" published by the National Maritime Museum, to see how realistic this movie is, and how well a film can be made. I cannot think of one fault, neither can I think of any way it could have been improved. This is Film making at it's best!
