Musketeer

Pros: It has Musketeer in the title.
Cons: Cheap effects, poor acting, little to no adventure.

The Musketeer
Directed by: Peter Hyams

I only recommend this movie as a filler to an otherwise uneventful evening at home.

This is my contribution to Teskues Musketeer write off. Read the...

Pros: Tom Roth, different twist on familiar story
Cons: Stiff acting, very little of the usual Musketeer comedy elements

There have been numerous movies based on the Three Musketeers novel by Dumas... most of those versions were really quite well done and kept the original tone extremely well. This is not one of them. Don't get me wrong here, I did enjoy...

Pros: Photography at times, action sequences, at times, Roth, Deneuve
Cons: Justin Chamber's flat affect, saturated darkness, and huh?

Ordinarily, a good action flick can be forgiven a few glitches in flow, plot defects, and acting insufficiencies (as most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts prove) if the action is good enough to stimulate an adrenaline rush that carries through to the...

Pros: I bought for about the same price as renting it.
Cons: If I'd rented it I could take it back.

It might sound strange for me to say that I feel that there is a good movie hiding somewhere within the largely unenjoyable ‘The Musketeer’. Of course there is, you’re thinking to yourself, and it’s already been made, and more than once....

Pros: There was a cool preview for Windtalkers before the film...
Cons: The previews ended and the film started.

Last Friday I was going to visit a friend of mine that works the Midnight shift. He wasn't awake yet (it was seven in the evening) so I decided to kill a bit of time and see a film. I had been warned away from this film by a couple of reviews on the...

Pros: It's short.
Cons: It's still 88 minutes too long.

Boasting the silliest opening credits in recent memory, and a laundry list of cinematic stupidity, The Musketeer easily ranks among the year's worst movies. Fans of "so bad it's good" filmmaking will have a field day, while everyone else in the...

Pros: Tim Roth is in it....
Cons: Sadly, Roth and the entire film stink.

It took only a total of three minutes into The Musketeer for me to realize that I was about to watch a cinematic disaster. To be honest, everything about this film is BAD. Until today, I had no idea that film making was an event in...

Pros: Fast-paced action, dazzling stunts, beautiful costumes, sets and scenery
Cons: Weak script, inept acting and stunts lifted from previous martial-arts films

Hollywood launches another assault on classic literature with this new $50 million adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel that's strong on action but weak on drama, fusing Hong Kong's martial arts with 17th-century swordplay.

The...

Pros: Hey, sword-fighting is always good.
Cons: That's about all that's good.

Well, I suppose the first sign of trouble was the fact that aside from myself, the two guys I saw the film with, and two sets of two couples getting to know each other a little better (one in the front row, one in the back) the theater was empty. And for...

Pros: My mind is blank
Cons: Everything, even the action is completely screwed up.

"The Musketeer" is the type of film that almost makes me regret that I love movies, that I read news and previews and anxiously anticipate those that interest me. For over a year I have been awaiting this movie, listening to raves from Harry Knowles at...

Pros: Tim Roth is amusing.
Cons: Hollywood still allows Peter Hyams to direct.

It appears that venerable, time-tested approaches to adventure yarns just aren't good enough for Hollywood these days. Coming fresh off the ready-for-the-WB-network Gen-Y western stylings of American Outlaws is The Musketeer, which...

Pros: Good costumes,score, and scenery.
Cons: They all get lost in the poor writing, directing, and fighting.

With four children under five, it’s not often that my husband and I get to see a movie in the theater, let alone see one on opening day. As a result, we reserve our movie dates for only those movies that must be seen on the big screen. We weren’t...

Pros: sword fighting action sequences on wine barrels, on ropes, and on ladders.
Cons: no worthy story. final action sequence is surprisingly short.

Peter Hyams' "The Musketeer" should actually be renamed Xin-Xin Xiong's "The Musketeer". It's not a film about direction in terms of camera, character development, or plot. It's a film about how to create elaborate fight sequences that...

Pros: Nice lighting.
Cons: That there were any lights at all.

First impressions die hard -- except in the case of “The Musketeer.” When I saw the trailer for the film several months ago, I had to actually contain my excitement. The glimpses that I saw well, actually not glimpses, because now trailers last twenty...

Pros: Not much...the swordplay is exciting and original to watch...Tim Roth is always great
Cons: Lackluster plot, a boring romance and not even a spark of originality

Admittedly, the trailers for this movie had me going. But of course, that's exactly what the trailers are meant to, right...?

My personal prayer was, though, that the trailers weren't just hyping the best parts of the movie like most trailers...