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The Three Musketeers (2011)

October. 20,2011
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5.7
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PG-13
| Adventure Action Thriller
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The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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Invaderbank
2011/10/20

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Geraldine
2011/10/21

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Cassandra
2011/10/22

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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Walter Sloane
2011/10/23

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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wscharles
2011/10/24

Presumably made for the American market who might think this was how life was in 17th century France. But for anyone with any knowledge or intelligence this is GARBAGE.

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clayjardine
2011/10/25

It's not your traditional Three Musketeer's story, but I think it was a creative take on it. I can see why some people wouldn't like the changes, but I feel like they help to keep the story entertaining.Some of the pacing in the film is weird and the actions of some characters could seem a little humorous, but overall it's a fun movie that should be entertaining to those who just want something to take them out of the real world.

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rsn711
2011/10/26

This is a very bad movie. I of course knew that before watching it, but I hoped it would be one of those mindless, turn-your-brain off and enjoy bad movies. You know the type. The kind of movie that everyone tries to convince you Suicide Squad is. But, alas.I was hopeful because The Three Musketeers is a classic tale with source material ripe for adaptation. Add in Christoph Waltz as a scenery-chewing villain, and there was real potential. But, in Paul WS Anderson I trusted, and therein lies my mistake.There are two glaring issues with this movie as I see it: an absolute failure to establish any sort of charming camaraderie between the titular "Musketeers", and lackluster action sequences. The former issue is a critical failure, because the heart and soul of a movie about the Three Musketeers has to be a believable relationship between the characters we are supposed to root for. Instead we spend no time with our heroes, with nothing to establish why they are in fact our heroes, before the film moves on and leaves us behind.Regarding the latter issue, I admit that perhaps I am bringing a bias to my viewing of this movie since plenty of other people have praised the action. Watching martial arts movies where the actors are real- life practitioners of the fighting style they are using has made me much less tolerant of poorly-trained actors that look like they are trying harder to remember the routine they practiced than actually sell the fight. I was left totally uninspired and, quite frankly, bored by the swordplay featured in the film.There are certainly other issues with the film as well. Something you can always count on in a Hollywood-produced period piece is the inconsistency with which an accent will be utilized, and The Three Musketeers certainly didn't let me down in this regard. Matthew Macfadyen goes with British, Logan Lerman sticks to American, Christoph Waltz does his best French, Milla Jovovich is doing...something, and Orlando Bloom does his best Spongebob mocking meme a good 6 years before it becomes a thing.The CGI was blatant and gratuitous, though I will cut the film some slack since I watched in 2017 so the technology is already outdated. But even after everything I've brought up, one of the most frustrating issues with this film is the way the plot absolutely jumps the shark at the end. Without saying too much, we get a thoroughly unsatisfying conclusion to what should have been the explosive confrontation between the Musketeers and Waltz's Richelieu.Ultimately this was a waste of time. I know this film grossed more than its budget, but when adding in marketing costs it doesn't seem like it made a profit. If anything, I would assume it broke even. And in a world where we give Transformers and Johnny Depp's latest Pirates dreck billion-dollar grosses, at least this movie seems to have failed.

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Dr_Sagan
2011/10/27

Silly movie this one but not boring. It cost $75M and it shows. There are huge problems though.First of all we deal with a classic here, so it has a legacy that must be respected. In this version, every character is presented as a buffoon. The acting, the deliverance...Leonardo da Vinci, we learn, has drawn up plans for a flying "war machine," a combination of dirigible and seafaring galleon. The plot and the dialogs are full of hot air like the war machine. The director is obviously thought that these were minor issues!The action is dominated by green-screen and Matrix-like effects.Overall: Not boring if you are 9 y.o. but a disgrace nevertheless...

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