Instant Favorite.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Horrendous acting quality ruined what could have been a very entertaining movie. dialogue exchange was so painful, I could imagine crapping a box full of razor blades to be more entertaining. A shame, considering the comfortable story line combined with excellent action sequences could have made for something that passes as entertainment, otherwise. Jean-Pierre Castaldi and Tim Roth are the closest things in the movie to an exception, otherwise every other so called "actor's" delivery of the dialogue reminded me of a bad middle school drama club presentation. The sets were at least adequate. The only reason that I pained myself to watch the whole movie though is that the fight scenes were somewhat entertaining. In fact, I ended up reading a book during many of the scenes, as the rest of the movie wasn't even worth my time.

The Musketeer (2001): Dir: Peter Hyams / Cast: Justin Chambers, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Catherine Deneuve, Stephen Rea: Embarrassing joke that is more content with the sound of clashing swords as they are pulled from their hilts. Title indicates oneness with Justin Chambers witnessing the death of his parents by a ruthless leader who still bares the scar the boy left. This pathetic charade has been used in eighty million other dumb Musketeer movies. It attempts to copy the wonderfully choreographed action of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but instead it presents the most embarrassing fight sequence to end any movie. This comes off a long list of Peter Hyams directed crap including End of Days and Sudden Death. Acting is horrible with Chambers as the hero and Tim Roth in one of his worst performance as the villain. Mena Suvari's role consists has her being caught naked in a bathtub. "Haven't you ever seen a naked woman before?" she asks as Chambers turns away respectively. Such idiotic hints of innuendo are juvenile in this poorly produced junk. Finally there is Catherine Deneuve who leaves us wondering what an actress of her class and stature doing in a piece of sh*t like this. There have been commercials for dog food that have been better produced than this. This garbage should be buried some place where it will never surface again. Score: 1 / 10

An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's world, An action movie version made by an action team (Moshe Diamant (production), Peter Hyams, ... )This movie gives us, besides a certain originality of this adaptation, an umpteenth version, which falls very quickly in most easy screen writing "clichés". A story of revenge (murders of family members of the hero by the bad), Planchet a weapon master guide and finally just for serving as transition because once adult D'Artagnan, Planchet quickly found again his place as servant. Constance became Francesca?? Monsieur De Bonnacieux became a sewerman for facilitate the intrusion of companions in the palace, the queen wades through the sewers and plays a woman of the people ... The poor drama is expected to highlight the action scenes.Like a good action film and screenplay of action, too longer and too many action scenes come easily are the culmination of history. The control of the action scenes is widely demonstrated.Shot in the southwest of France's natural settings are well highlighted.An interesting distribution with the pleasant and reassuring presence of Catherine Deneuve, Jean Pierre Castaldi a surprising and very fit for Planchet one of his best roles I've seen, and especially Tim Roth always a credible and more than convincing with a large presence for play the bad guy.Note the role of Tim Roth, Febre, the name is reminiscent of the Count of Fere also alias Athos, D'Artagnan offers something quite unusual: a adventure of the three musketeers without Milady. Because Febre is Rochefort and Ms De Winter together, with all its pure evil thing of Ms. De Winter.Another title would have been welcome, "a story of D'Artagnan and the musketeers". The story was modified just for the intrigues of the era are just used as the backdrop for an action film. This movie is well directed and entertaining.The goal is reached, but despite the entertainment, D'Artagnan is a film that can easily be omitted.jeliosjelios@hotmail.fr

Peter Hyam's The Musketeer is the third of four mediocre Alexandre Dumas adaptations from the last twenty years; Disney's Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron mask, this, and the Count of Monte Cristo. According to renowned indie critic James Berardinelli, Hollywood is making Dumas turn in his grave. Iron Mask was the best and Monte Cristo was the worst. This one has its ups and downs.As odd as it may sound, The Musketeer has the personality of a martial arts picture. You can either choose to see this as a good thing or a bad thing. Ssomehow, it feels a little too over the top and artificial for a 17th century French epic.I may have mentioned once, that Justin Chambers is pretty bad in the lead, but he is no worse than Oliver Platt, Kiefer Sutherland, and Charlie Sheen in the Disney version from ten years earlier. At least Chambers tries to be serious, one could say that he makes Sutherland, Platt and Sheen look like the three stooges in blue tunics.Tim Roth can play good villains, but his performance as the black cloaked, one eyed, captain of the guard, (previously portrayed by Michael Wincott, and Christopher Lee) is not terribly menacing. In truth, none of the acting is especially good. Once again Hyams acts as his own cinematographer, and he is a darn good one. Although not necessarily Oscar worthy, Much of the film is well shot, especially the climax, during which he makes great use of fire to light the hectic fight scenes. As a swashbuckling film, The Musketeer does its job, but not very well. It's occasionally exciting, but often a little too unbelievable. My best recommendation for this kind of material would The Mask of Zorro.