Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

tiger86-2 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.

Stanjaudit Some folks may'have not appreciated the version of the the Musketeers as it didn't have Michael York as d'Atagan or Fay Dunaway as M'Lady or other actors of renown. However, the intrigue centered around the palace at Versalles. In this case case though the queen was in love with Bukingham and she had taken one of her pearls from her necklace to give to Buckingham as a sign of her love. Cardinal Ricileu played by Charleton Heston learned of this and tried to have the queen implicated. That was that movie. This movie was just as entertaining. It may not have had the big name stars but the Palace of Versallies was the center of the intrigue. The plot was different but the action was nonstop. d'Atagan proved to be the better swordsman and musketeer. So cut some some slack and enjoy a film for it's own merits not some preconceived ones.

Desertman84 The Musketeer is a film very loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' classic novel The Three Musketeers.It stars Catherine Deneuve, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Nick Moran, Bill Treacher and Justin Chambers.The movie was directed by Peter Hyams.The Musketeer was set in 17th-century Paris.A dashing swordsman named D'Artagnan finds himself at odds with the powerful forces taking over France. He sets out to avenge the murder of his parents and finds his country cleaved by chaos and civil unrest. His heart softens only for Francesca, a fiery peasant girl who claims D'Artagnan's heart on sight. D'Artagnan, after witnessing his unarmed parents slain by the evil Febre ,grows up wanting to be a musketeer, one of King Louis XIII's loyal protectors. Upon arriving in Paris, however, he finds that the Musketeers have been disbanded by order of Cardinal Richelieu, who is usurping the king's authority with the help of his lethal henchman, Febre.Traveling to Paris, D'Artagnan verbally spars with witless quip- spouting musketeers Aramis, Athos and Porthos. D'Artagnan heads off guarding the queen, who is traveling incognito as a commoner on her way to meet Lord Buckingham. The evil Febre, his leash held loosely by the evil Cardinal Richilieu, wants to kill the Queen in order to sow unrest and war, which would create opportunities to profit, a war between France and England.The Musketeer is a film that relies mainly of cheesy action scenes mostly on cheesy and unrealistic swordplay.Aside from that,it also has poor story that makes minimized Dumas' classic into a forgettable novel. Acting is decent and the editing presents somewhat a confusing story.Overall,The Musketeer is a MUST MISS film.

Jeliosjelios 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]