The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

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  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
  • Release Date: 1993-11-11
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • : 6.402
  • Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America, Austria
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6.402
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Description

D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have refused to lay down their weapons and continue to protect their king. D'Artagnan joins with the rogues to expose Richelieu's plot against the crown.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    There’s more than a little of the spirit of the Oliver Reed et al adventures (1973) to this adaptation of the intrigues at the court of King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox). This time, it’s Logan Lerman’s “D’Artagnan” who arrives in Paris and swiftly encounters three strangers with whom he has to duel. There’s “Athos” (Matthew Macfadyen), “Porthos” (Ray Stevenson) and “Aramis” (Luke Evans) and all are eager to teach this young upstart a lesson. Luckily, they are diverted by the guards of the Cardinal Prime Minister Richieleu (Christophe Waltz) under the command of the menacingly eye-patched “Rochefort” (Mads Mikkelsen) and are soon before the king and becoming aware that there is a dastardly plot afoot that might just involve the queen (June Temple) and the perfectly coiffured Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). With “D’Artagnan” also becoming enamoured of the lady-in-waiting “Constance” (Gabriella Wilde) who tells him of the appropriation of the queen’s diamonds to Britain, these four gents have their work cut out for them if they are to save the honour of a lady and the crown of a king. Aside from the innovation of some early cross-channel air travel, the rest of this is really quite disappointing. Colourful and swashbuckling at times, certainly, but the characterisations are all a bit pantomime-esque. There’s not enough menace engendered by the not very threatening “Milady” (Milla Jovovich) nor from the underused combo of Mikkelsen and Waltz and just how the foppish Bloom stopped himself from laughing each time he was on screen is anyone’s guess. The production and it’s design is sumptuous, the locations grand and imposing but there’s just nothing really original about any of this - and that’s best epitomised by the annoying James Corden fairly shamelessly mimicking the efforts of Roy Kinnear as the hapless “Planchet”. It’s watchable television fodder, but disappointing at just about every turn.

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