Memorable, crazy movie

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I loved the movie when I saw it for the first time. Of course, back then I was 15 and I was easily impressed, but, honestly, 'The Musketeer' still is a rather watchable swashbucking adventure. It is beautifully filmed, nicely paced, funny, and filled with excellent stunts. It suffers, however, from three serious problems.First, apart from a few names, it has nothing to do with Dumas' works whatsoever, and it is about as historically accurate as "Xena: Warrior Princess" is - which would be fine, if the historical period and the books were represented well by Hollywood - but, sadly, they're not. The last Hollywood movie that actually did Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" justice came out in the year 1948 - it is great, by the way, watch it.Second, the writing is about as good as you can expect from a hack like Gene Quintano. The highlight of this moron's career is 'Loaded Weapon 1', which, I believe, says enough about his abilities. He cannot write adventure, and if it weren't for Peter Hyams' serviceable directing, this movie would actually deserve its current rating of 4.7/10. I really do think Hyams did the best he could with the material he had to work with - and with the piece of wood that played the main character - which leads us to the final and most important problem.Third, Justin Chambers is simply awful. He is not only a bad actor, making Robert Patinson look like Daniel Day-Lewis in comparison, he is also a horrible action performer, which is indeed a problem when the character he is supposed to play is the best Kung-Fu master that has ever roamed the streets of Paris during the reign of King Louis XIII. Clearly, the producers' of this movie's goal wasn't an Oscar worthy performance, but why didn't they hire someone capable to do the fight scenes to play the leading role? As I said, the stunts were nice, but the fact that Chambers obviously relied on a stunt double way too much remains. I'm not saying he should've risked his life performing the action scenes, but, dammit, most of the time when D'Artagnan is fighting you don't even see his face - either he is wearing a hat, covering his entire head, or he is filmed from afar, or his face is shown in a close-up while the actor is not doing anything, other than simply waving his sword around, parrying imaginary blows or stabbing imaginary opponents. In other words, during a fight scene you see either the fighting, or D'Artagnan's face, but never both - and once you realize that, a lot of the pleasure you're extracting from this movie will disappear.With all that said, I still recommend the movie, if you want to see something lighthearted and adventurous. True, it is not exactly great, but it is watchable, and it is colourful.

I am far to be a fan o Alexandre Dumas. so, this version is far to be a surprise. except the presence of few good actors in not the best roles, some seductive ( but unrealistic ) fight scenes, a story reduced at conventional sketch, Tim Roth looking for the decent way to save his character from not happy script and, sure, Catherine Deneuve in a role who surprise long time after the final credits. a film about nothing. this could be a virtue but , in this case, it remains bizarre. because it is just a walk around characters, a stupid script, fight scenes as fireworks. and this is all.

There are some wonderful actors in this interpretation of Alexander Dumas' classic novel--Tim Roth, Stephen Rea, Catherine Deneuve--but sadly the star of the film is Justin Chambers, a young man whose acting is so wooden that you can almost see termites gnawing on him during close-ups. The Three Musketeers themselves are a total afterthought, getting little screen time and absolutely zero character set-up or development. They may as well not be in the film at all. As usual, Roth makes a gourmet meal out of store brand ingredients, and Rea and Deneuve do what they can with their undercooked roles.The film's "hook" was that its action sequences were choreographed by Xin-Xin Xiong, a well known Hong Kong stunt man. Unfortunately it's poorly shot, with much of the action taking place in dimly lit rooms and seemingly edited with a Cuisinart. Two of the scenes are moderately entertaining--a duel between d'Artagnan and some thugs at a pub, and then the final duel between he and Roth's Febre using a series of ladders. But even if you can swallow its video gamey quality, it's not enough--not nearly enough--to save this wretched effort.

An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's world, An action movie version made by an action team (Moshe Diamant (production), Peter Hyams, ... )This movie gives us, besides a certain originality of this adaptation, an umpteenth version, which falls very quickly in most easy screen writing "clichés". A story of revenge (murders of family members of the hero by the bad), Planchet a weapon master guide and finally just for serving as transition because once adult D'Artagnan, Planchet quickly found again his place as servant. Constance became Francesca?? Monsieur De Bonnacieux became a sewerman for facilitate the intrusion of companions in the palace, the queen wades through the sewers and plays a woman of the people ... The poor drama is expected to highlight the action scenes.Like a good action film and screenplay of action, too longer and too many action scenes come easily are the culmination of history. The control of the action scenes is widely demonstrated.Shot in the southwest of France's natural settings are well highlighted.An interesting distribution with the pleasant and reassuring presence of Catherine Deneuve, Jean Pierre Castaldi a surprising and very fit for Planchet one of his best roles I've seen, and especially Tim Roth always a credible and more than convincing with a large presence for play the bad guy.Note the role of Tim Roth, Febre, the name is reminiscent of the Count of Fere also alias Athos, D'Artagnan offers something quite unusual: a adventure of the three musketeers without Milady. Because Febre is Rochefort and Ms De Winter together, with all its pure evil thing of Ms. De Winter.Another title would have been welcome, "a story of D'Artagnan and the musketeers". The story was modified just for the intrigues of the era are just used as the backdrop for an action film. This movie is well directed and entertaining.The goal is reached, but despite the entertainment, D'Artagnan is a film that can easily be [email protected]