Review of The Three Musketeers (2011) by Kyle C — 02 Aug 2012

I hope any high school history student will not accept this as history. Alexandre Dumas' classic shwashbuckling adventure tale is updated for Generation Y and I reccomend that they seek out Richard Lester's 1973 film The Three Musketeers and its sequel 1974's The Four Musketeers.

Some good points, I enjoyed the interplay between Athos (Luke Evans), Aramis (Matthew MacFayden), and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and Orlando Bloom is clearly having a lot of fun playing one of the film's principle antagonists, the Duke of Buckingham.

But I could have done without the fleets of DaVinci-designed flying warships and Logan Lerman's D'Artagnan is very wooden (so is Gabriella Wilde's Constance, they make the ideal couple). Milla Jovovich's Milady de Winter seemed to have dropped in from one of her Resident Evil films.

There is no reference to Rochefort wearing a sinister eye patch in Dumas' novel but there Mads Mikkelson is wearing an eyepatch, just like Christopher Lee did in the 1970s Lester films when he played the same role.

Worth watching to remind myself how good Lester's version is.