When the opening credits showed a nice engraving of an 18th Century Gentleman I thought we weren't in for a gem - sadly I was right.
The sets and the set dressing are superb and as good as you are going to get but the positives stop there. The script, directing and acting are all so amateur that you would get better from the local 'AmDram'. The armourer was a complete joke, as was the fight director.
Given how many times the 'based on Alexandre Dumas' novel' has been made how is it still possible to get EVERYTHING so very wrong - even, in this case, the timeline!
If you want a musketeers movie you still can't beat the Richard Lester version. But there are other versions that are quite watchable - this is not.
Really, just don't bother, you'll never get that part of your life back. Watch some paint dry, it would be more entertaining...
The sets and the set dressing are superb and as good as you are going to get but the positives stop there. The script, directing and acting are all so amateur that you would get better from the local 'AmDram'. The armourer was a complete joke, as was the fight director.
Given how many times the 'based on Alexandre Dumas' novel' has been made how is it still possible to get EVERYTHING so very wrong - even, in this case, the timeline!
If you want a musketeers movie you still can't beat the Richard Lester version. But there are other versions that are quite watchable - this is not.
Really, just don't bother, you'll never get that part of your life back. Watch some paint dry, it would be more entertaining...