Inclubabu
Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Sammy-Jo Cervantes
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Brooklynn
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
FromBookstoFilm
SPOILERS I saw this movie back in the early 1980's and loved it and just I recently watched the DVD. This adaptation closely followed the book. Wonderful performances by all particularly the actors playing Athos,Porthos,Aramis,D'Artagnan,Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter. This version and the two sequels that followed rivaled the Richard Lester Musketeer Trilogy of the !970's and 1980's. Whenever I watch a film I check to see if the film remains to the original novel and this passed the test with flying colors. This movie had wonderful music and I really felt for the Athos character. I think this portrayal of Athos was the closest portrayal yet to the character. A goodhearted nobleman betrayed,ruined and driven to drink by a deceiving woman he had married who he thought was a perfect beauty,perfect angel only to discover she was a branded criminal,thief,con-artist liar,seductress and mistress of a defrocked priest who later but not intentionally re-enters his life as spy courtesan assassin Milady de Winter.This portrayal of Athos rivals the portrayals of actors Oliver Reed and Van Heflin as Athos in the 1973 and 1948 films. D'Artagnan may have been too old for the role but what a great performance! This film version's Milady de Winter really showed the deceiving and deadly character of Milady. That Milady could hold her own against the Musketeers and she really was their worst enemy. She didn't tremble in fear of the Musketeers.She stood up to them.Defeated Aramis and Porthos and shot D'Artagnan during the chase scene.This Milady was very athletic jumping out of window and onto a horse. Something no other Milady in any other version had done!The performance rivaled Faye Dunaway's and Emmanuelle Beart's Milady in the most recent adaptation. At times the character shows a soft beauty who as the picture progresses becomes more and more of a hardened calloused character. I love this film and I recommend it and the two sequels that followed. My favorite scene is the chase scene towards the end of the film reminds me in many ways of the chase scene in the Richard Lester's Four Musketeers but I like this one much better! Anyone who wants to see other faithful full adaptations from the beginning of the story to the end please see 1948,1961,1974,1999 and the 2005 versions.
elnina8
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. I suppose that's the very best way to put it.The Three Musketeers is about a young man who sets out to earn his living as a musketeer. At the very beginning his letter of recommendation is stolen by a cardinal's "employee" and D'Argtagnan can't become a musketeer immediately. He meets three friends and has many adventures.This movie is amazing. There's lots of laughter and excitement. The actors are phenomenal. I love this movie and I've seen it more than 30 times. If you're going to watch something, watch this.
sdrannikova
It's a great movie. And of course it's a bit old-fashioned for nowadays. But I really, really love it. And I haven't seen better Three Musketeers movie up till now. Though I've seen a lot. Music, songs, lyrics, actors, director - everything is just fitting greatly together to make it a really classic movie which will be still loved after so many years. And the songs they still sing and everybody, literally everybody in Russia knows the songs and even the quotes by heart. It is sometimes funny and sometimes really romantic and sometimes a bit naive film. And its surely worthwhile to watch! Boyarski (D'Artagnian) still lives in St. Petersburg and still terribly popular, especially for his role in this movie. I've seen him lately walking on the bank of Moika river - in black long coat and a black huge hat... and still with his mustache...
SMalamud
I am not a huge fan of musical comedies, musical action films or musical romances, and this movie is all of it in one. One should expect the characters to break into a song at any time during the movie as it is basically a filmed operette, loosely wrapped around the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas. Think 'The King and I' in Russian. Nothing unusual, however, for many Russian movies of the time. Songs were probably the only and the best sound effect available to Soviet directors back then.However, in this particular movie everything fits in pretty nicely. Boyarsky's good looks (I dare anyone to find a better D'Artagnan in any film), Tabakov's silliness as Louis XIII, even Terekhova's acting as Milady. Credit is due to Yungvald-Khilkevich for putting it all together. The songs, written just for the movie, fit perfectly into the plot, and have become Russian classics, instantly recognized by anyone even now, 20 years later (pun intended).The action sequences are quite good, the cinematography is beautiful, Porthos is lovable, Constance is a knockout. What else do you want from a musketeer movie?
