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Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 67
It plays admirably fast and loose with Alexandre Dumas' classic tale, but in every other respect, The Three Musketeers offers nothing to recommend -- or to set it apart from the many other film adaptations.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 12
It plays admirably fast and loose with Alexandre Dumas' classic tale, but in every other respect, The Three Musketeers offers nothing to recommend -- or to set it apart from the many other film adaptations.
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The hot-headed young D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas' story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D. -- (C) Summit
Oct 21, 2011 Wide
Mar 13, 2012
$20.4M
Summit Entertainment
All Critics (93) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (68) | DVD (8)
This is a once-in-a-lifetime fiasco, an epic fail like none we have seen this year, a bad idea by a very bad director and a career-crippling credit for all concerned.
Even the most liberal viewer is likely to echo Milady's thoughts of D'Artagnan: "You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."
Call it the Robert Downey Jr. Meets Sherlock Holmes Effect. A classic popular adventure gets overblown, juiced-up, and generally CGI-ified.
In the worst possible case, this could go on and on, but please, let's hope it doesn't.
Every time you think it can't get any stupider, it gets right up in your face, calls you "bro," and gets stupider.
All the borderline pantomime acting and wigged buffoonery is deliberate and silly, but The Three Musketeers remains charmless, a romp brought down by its lead-footed script.
The Three Musketeers does not require actors with "gravitas" but it does require actors who look like they belong in the time period. The Blu-ray isn't bad.
It's fun for a Saturday afternoon viewing, but it will ultimately go down in the annals of movie history as yet another forgettable adaptation.
Never has failure looked this good!
If you want over-the-top entertainment that doesn't respect the laws of physics, you can't do much better than this.
You might mistake the sound of swashbuckling for what it really is: Alexandre Dumas spinning in his grave. Much closer to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' lite than it is to 'The Three Musketeers,' this makes a mess of the classic Dumas tale.
Ugh. Nothing makes sense, it's not funny and the 3D is worthless.
Anderson has crafted a beautiful and rambunctious film that is in many ways a lot more fun than the last few Disney "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.
The actors should have remained dry-docked instead of shipping out on this big, bloated Three Muske-mess.
A frequent choice for transposing fiction into film, The Three Musketeers returns as an action-filled, slight diversion.
So dumb and goofy and ridiculous that it's actually kind of hard not to like on those terms.
So hammy and campy that Alexander Dumas would scarcely recognize this latest incarnation of his swashbuckling tale.
Have we retained nothing of the lessons of Hudson Hawk? Like that early Nineties comical disaster, The Three Musketeers hinges on the secret machinations of Leonardo da Vinci.
Gaudy and vulgar ...
Alexandre Dumas isn't merely turning in his grave, he's half way through re-enacting 'Thriller'.
I suppose I should have known better seeing director Paul W.S. Anderson's name attached to the loose adaptation of The Three Musketeers. From the previews, I thought that the film could perhaps settle on an enjoyable level of stupidity, something of a wink while it obliterates all fidelity to Alexander Dumas source
April 30, 2012
Super Reviewer
Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Gabriella Wilde, Orlando Bloom, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Juno Temple, Til Schweiger Director:Paul W.S. AndersonSummary: The original three musketeers are past their prime and working menial jobs in Paris when their friend
December 16, 2010
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