Unlimitedia
Sick Product of a Sick System
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
Borserie
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
wscharles
Presumably made for the American market who might think this was how life was in 17th century France. But for anyone with any knowledge or intelligence this is GARBAGE.
Kirpianuscus
I am not a fan of Dumas novel. and this film is far to be the most pledge for change the opinion. because it is one of films useful to see only for the actors. and only if you are the admirers of theirs. the story is out of sense. the innovations are bizarre. and the exotic air ships are the only reason for not forget the film just after final credits. sure, after so many adaptations, the surprises are far to be real expected. but the absence of purpose for this project, full of colors and ambitions is the basic problem. Orlando Bloom , Milla Jovovich ,Christoph Walz are lost in a story who has nothing - humor, accuracy, logic or status of reasonable adaptation. short, a made film only for be 3 D. nothing more. and, maybe, for a part of public, a nice film. if you are wise/polite to ignore the book.
mike48128
It's the original Alexander Dumas story about the purloined necklace with a few unusual twists. Some good and some outrageous. A lot of carnage as the 3 Musketeers plus D'Artegnan, engage over 40 young guards, kill most of them, and act like they just finished a quiet game of chess. Later on, muskets and cannons make it less crude. Milla Jovovich (as Milady De Winter) somewhat reprises the "busty" comic role made famous by Rachel Welch in an earlier version of this film. She plays a double spy, but her own interests come first. Gabriella Wilde is very fetching as the love interest of D'Artegnan. It opens with a direct steal from Indiana Jones. Leonardo Da Vinci's Treasure vault is filled with booby-traps. Milady runs away with Da Vinci's plans for a flying airship, which end up with The Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). He builds an airship and so does France. Such an anachronism! What gas do they fill the "blimps" with? They otherwise resemble giant warships equipped with advanced conventional weapons. To retrieve the necklace, The Musketeers must journey to England and return it to Queen Anne's neck. Otherwise a terrible war will break out. It's complicated! Familiar villains include one-eyed "Rochefort" and Cardinal Richelieu. An airborne dogfight between the airships and a duel-to-the-death on the parapet of the castle rooftop. Actually quite a fun but preposterous movie and much better than I expected. Watch the ending titles for two "Easter Eggs" including one for a (thankfully) never-realized sequel with too many airships to even count!
K B
I will never understand the sick urge that Hollywood producers have, to twist the classic tales that everyone loved in their childhood into unrecognizable and nonsensical messes that are destined to be forgettable at best. So many millions squandered, so many work hours, only to result in something that looks so haphazard. Mediocre visual effects and visually pleasing settings (alas historically inaccurate) can not redeem the abysmal writing of the dialogues, the terribly developed and frankly annoying characters and the overall school- play quality of acting. Some rhetorical questions: Could they have chosen someone more insignificant as d'Artagnan? Is the purpose of Orlando Bloom's hairdo to hurt our eyes or terminate his career? Was the king of France a girl with mustache?Alternative title: "a book-lover's nightmare"
