The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

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Slow-moving swashbuckler is better for teens and up.

July 8, 2010 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

The Man in the Iron Mask needed more of a jaunty twinkle, more wolfish grins, less thinking and more doing.

June 11, 2010 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Leonardo DiCaprio times two. What more could you want? Perhaps more thrilling swash and buckle.

March 30, 2009 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

...this version of The Man in the Iron Mask owes more to Star Wars than Star Wars owes to Dumas.

January 27, 2005 Full Review

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Though a fine actor, DiCaprio is no Errol Flynn. With his choirboy face and chess-club physique, he is scarcely fit to play swashbuckling hero or villain.

June 6, 2003 Full Review

Jeffrey Westhoff

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Reveals how important it is in middle age to keep one's spiritual ideals alive and shining.

August 21, 2002 Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

A laughably flimsy remake of a frequently told adventure.

July 27, 2002

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

• 1. Aramis: [narrating] Some of this is legend, but at least this much is fact - when rioting citizens of France destroyed the Bastille, they discovered within its records this mysterious entry: Prisoner # 64389000 - The Man in the Iron Mask.
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• 1. Athos: [to Phillipe] Once I, once all of us, believed in serving something greater than ourselves. Aramis had his faith, Porthos his lust for life, D'Artagnan his devotion and I had Raoul. But we all had a common dream. That one day we would finally be able to serve a king who was worthy of the throne. It is what we dreamt, what we bled for, and what we have waited a lifetime to see. I taught Raoul to believe in that dream, and now my son is dead. And now I want to know if my son's life was in vain, and the only person who can answer that is you.
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• 1. Athos: D'Artagnan, I have never known a finer man than you nor cared more for a friend, but if this king harms my son merely to take a lover, then this king will become my enemy. And so will any man who stands between that enemy and me.
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• 1. Philippe: I wear the mask. It does not wear me.
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• 1. D'Artagnan: Anne, to love you is treason against France. But not to love you is treason against my heart.
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• 1. Louis XIV: D'Artagnan, you will hunt down Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, and bring me their heads, or I will have yours. And as for you, my brother, back to the prison you will go, and into the mask you hate. Wear it 'til you love it! And die in it.
  – Submitted by Lea L (23 months ago)

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