Three Musketeers, The

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Three Musketeers, The (2011)

Reviewed by •David Michael Brown 3/5
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The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

A rip-roaring swashbuckler with a looser grasp-of-reality than the Resident Evil series at its most loopy, Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers is a hugely entertaining romp that defies expectations at every swish of a blade.

Beautifully shot, at stunning locations, using James Cameron’s Avatar bag-of-3D-tricks, the zany adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic garishly captures the opulence and splendour of the 17th Century French aristocracy. Full of flamboyant swordplay and lashings of broad-stroke humour, the dashing Musketeers use their jousting skills and way-with-the-ladies to defeat a plot against the King of France.

The Musketeering trio may win the day but the fiendish villains take the acting honours. Milla Jovovich is suitably slinky as double-agent M’lady De Winter, Orlando Bloom camps it up as the caddish Duke of Buckingham, Christoph Waltz erupts as Cardinal Richelieu and Mads Mikkelsen glowers as henchman Rochefort. The wise-cracking heroes are less-interesting but Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans build a good camaraderie. Only Logan Lerman stumbles as the arrogant D’Artagnan.

Dumas scholars should avoid this like the plague but The Three Musketeers is a well-coiffured hoot.

A action-packed, if historically dodgy, fun-fest. Huzzah.

Posted by BrandonBonasera15 on 18/04/2012

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Stupid, in fact it was quite stupid, though it was fun.
3/5
Posted by FDGZOMBIE15 on 12/05/2012

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Three musketeers wow now I know a movie almost as worst than transformers 3 and that’s sad?. Where to start ok this movie takes hours to start and get somewhere also half this movie is the evil plot of the villains and then all of a sudden the “four’’ musketeers (who have no chemistry or brotherly feel to them) are off to defeat the bad guys so in other words this plot is all over the place. Now to the acting it’s what you expect from a movie like this ‘’OK’’ but now my biggest gripe is the musketeers the movie barely aims focus on them and in the end you feel like they wanted to make a poorly done pirates of the Caribbean and rival it but not only does this shows but it’s just screams it after to its sequel beginning ending hopefully they don’t do it but I got a bad feeling. Now to something positive and it’s the outfits and effects were kind are cool then you see the man who is wearing a girl’s wig just why, why.
1/5