PG-13; running time –
1 hour 50 minutes
Starring: Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich and Orlando Bloom
This movie can’t really be compared to any of the other Three Musketeers movies, and there have
been many of them in various forms. For one thing, it seems that the writers
and director couldn’t make up their minds if this was going to be an action
movie or a comedy. I know that action movies are capable of producing some
pretty good laughs at times. However, the lines and/or scenes that were (at
least I hope they were) intended to be funny were all by the same character
Planchet. But he was so over the top with his character that I had to make sure
the script wasn’t written by Mel Brooks. I think the movie would have been
better without the character even being included.
There were some liberties taken with Dumas’ story, including
the flying ships. I mean these things were huge flying ships, like sailing
ships but with big ass hot air balloons attached to them. I normally don’t
worry about things like believability in a movie, but these “air ships” were so
completely unbelievable that they were to the point of being laughable.
The sword fighting scenes were pretty good and the story
line was entertaining, which is the most important thing I look for in a movie.
Overall, I would say that if you have the opportunity to watch this movie for
free, go for it. It’s not a bad way to spend a couple of hours, but I wouldn’t
spend money on it.
If you really want to see a good Three Musketeers movie go find a copy of the movie from 1993
starring Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt, or even better the
1973 version starring Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain and Michael York.
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