Review of The Musketeer (2001) by Luke B — 06 Aug 2009

At first The Musketeer may sound interesting to you, a retelling of the classic tale with a martial arts influence incorporated into the sword fights. Then you think about it for a second...and suddenly sounds shit.

I have no problem with not using the correct accent in a film, but here France is a mix of French, American and English accents. This becomes very distracting and confusing when you can't work out if a character is meant to be English, or f they are French with an English accent.

Even Arthur Fowler from Eastenders shows up. Justin Chambers has all the charisma and heartthrob appeal of a child murderer. Everybody else tries to keep things together but when even Tim Roth fails as a bad guy, then what hope is there? Roth may as well have had "EVIL BASTARD" stamped on his forehead.

He begs and pleads to kill people because showing him kill a family in the beginning just wasn't enough. It's overkill and a mostly forgotten blemish on his career. The only interesting parts are the fighting scenes, which, had they been in a Hong Kong setting, may have worked.