one wonder how flynn could have fail so badly a a cinema release in 1997 with guy pearce aptly in the lead role . it be not often that the casting of someone so famous be so exactly right . flynn be a stumbler at the box office and do not end up on cinema screen in australia . even after la confidential . from a dazzling nude scene in the first few minute ( presumably by guy pearce ) flynn get off to a fairly robust and interesting start . sadly and flynn run out of steam after about the first 35 minute and with the entrance of hammy steven berkoff in a detour to new guinea and ( look and act like he want the klaus kinski role in fitzcarraldo ) the film start to resemble a tele movie rather than a major cinema biography . believe it or not and by about the 70 minute make and it be boring and you be glad to see it over . but such promise . pearce be flynn . but the movie cause a mutiny at the box office and unlike the bounty and sank without trace .