The Three Musketeers

2011

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / History / Romance / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 98 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 116413 116.4K

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Plot summary

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Top cast

Mads Mikkelsen as Rochefort
Juno Temple as Queen Anne
Florian Brückner as Rochefort's Replacement
Milla Jovovich as Milady de Winter
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751.93 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
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English 2.0
PG-13
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

There’s more than a little of the spirit

There’s more than a little of the spirit of the Oliver Reed et al adventures (1973) to this adaptation of the intrigues at the court of King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox). This time, it’s Logan Lerman’s “D’Artagnan” who arrives in Paris and swiftly encounters three strangers with whom he has to duel. There’s “Athos” (Matthew Macfadyen), “Porthos” (Ray Stevenson) and “Aramis” (Luke Evans) and all are eager to teach this young upstart a lesson. Luckily, they are diverted by the guards of the Cardinal Prime Minister Richieleu (Christophe Waltz) under the command of the menacingly eye-patched “Rochefort” (Mads Mikkelsen) and are soon before the king and becoming aware that there is a dastardly plot afoot that might just involve the queen (June Temple) and the perfectly coiffured Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). With “D’Artagnan” also becoming enamoured of the lady-in-waiting “Constance” (Gabriella Wilde) who tells him of the appropriation of the queen’s diamonds to Britain, these four gents have their work cut out for them if they are to save the honour of a lady and the crown of a king. Aside from the innovation of some early cross-channel air travel, the rest of this is really quite disappointing. Colourful and swashbuckling at times, certainly, but the characterisations are all a bit pantomime-esque. There’s not enough menace engendered by the not very threatening “Milady” (Milla Jovovich) nor from the underused combo of Mikkelsen and Waltz and just how the foppish Bloom stopped himself from laughing each time he was on screen is anyone’s guess. The production and it’s design is sumptuous, the locations grand and imposing but there’s just nothing really original about any of this - and that’s best epitomised by the annoying James Corden fairly shamelessly mimicking the efforts of Roy Kinnear as the hapless “Planchet”. It’s watchable television fodder, but disappointing at just about every turn.
Reviewed by r96sk 8 / 10

'The Three Musketeers' is a fun time. I

'The Three Musketeers' is a fun time. I must really like this story, given I rated and similarly enjoyed the 1993 version from Stephen Herek and Disney - I even put this one above that one! This 2011 version starts off so strongly, I love the opening few scenes... humour and editing was right up my street. Now, it admittedly doesn't quite keep such a high footing throughout, but all in all I certainly found entertainment with this. For the '93 release I was split on the cast, but for this flick I had a good time watching everyone onscreen. I didn't think Matthew Macfadyen would work in this sorta role but he performs astutely. Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans join Macfadyen in portraying the titular trio, again to positive effect. The famous D'Artagnan is performed by Logan Lerman here and I was impressed - a top performance from someone I hadn't seen much of before, aside from in 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'. As for the rest of the cast, Mads Mikkelsen, Milla Jovovich and Orlando Bloom spearhead the rest well. I will say that Freddie Fox and his character's part of the story didn't interest me as much but Fox is fine. Christoph Waltz is involved alongside Fox and is very forgettable... quite a frustrating use of Waltz's (incredibly high) talents, now I think about it. Elsewhere, James Corden is iffy... and I usually like Corden as an actor. I haven't looked at the average rating as of typing this sentence, but I presume it'll be rather low. It is sometimes easy to spot films that won't have scored well online. As per usual, each to one's own opinion. I personally had a happy experience with this and would definitely rewatch it if the opportunity arose.
Reviewed by fernandoschiavi 5 / 10

"The Three Musketeers" abandons its noble origins to become a generic and mediocre adaptation where the musketeers are only stereotypes

In the plot, D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) meets the legendary musketeers Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Aramis (Luke Evans) and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) after several disagreements. They end up falling into a new adventure that could threaten a new war between France and England and they need to join forces to avoid it. Among the obstacles are the spy Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich), Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom), the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu (Christopher Waltz) and his agent Rochefort (Mads Mikkelsen). In a mixture of humor, sword fights and aerial battles, the characters need to prove that bravery is above any difficulty.The screenplay by Alex Litvak ("Predators") and Andrew Davies (of the two "Bridget Jones") takes complete freedom to retell Dumas' story. For this, they update themselves in an interesting prologue involving Leonardo's drawings for a kind of flying ship, which can serve as a war strategy for nations. While betrayals are planned, the musketeers need, above all, to find a new reason to live an adventure and, encouraged by the young D'Artagnan, they agree to rescue a jewel that could compromise relations between France and England. It is treated almost as an excuse for swords to be crossed. The almost epic battles, especially in the final act, constantly take the viewer's breath away, who is immersed in pure fun. After all, "The Three Musketeers" has always been, above any bravery it wanted to expose, entertainment.The truth is that calling this adaptation The Three Musketeers or mentioning the name of its author, Alexandre Dumas, in the credits, is more than an insult, it is an affront. It could very well be titled Milady and the Flying Ships, which would fairly reflect what is on the scene, after all, Athos (Macfayden), Porthos (Stevenson), Aramis (Evans) and D'Artagnan (Lerman) are almost supporting characters in her history itself, serving as means rather than ends of the narrative and never justifying the reluctance of the musketeers to seek a noble enough cause that would impel them to once again defend France.Evidently, the script preserves the central characters of Dumas' work, especially Cardinal Richelieu (Waltz) and Colonel Rochefort (Mikkelsen), as well as Constance (Gabriella Wilde). However, the similarities stop there. In a plot involving dirigible ships - the only good idea of the entire narrative -, betrayals and the tension between England and France, the scriptwriters only seek to establish, with an emphasis on the seek, the rules of the narrative after it crosses the middle of its duration, when Cardinal Richelieu devises a strange plan to frame the Queen (Juno Temple) of treason with the Duke of Buckingham (Bloom). Until then, the viewer is obliged to accompany D'Artagnan giving love advice to King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox), accompany this character rambling about the new color of fashion or laugh at the comic incursions of Planchet (James Corden), even see him getting hit by pigeon poop, certainly one of the most original gags in film history.It is worse to imagine that the screenwriters consider themselves to be intelligent or opportune when, in a chess duel between Richelieu and Louis XIII, the former lectures the young man on the king's vulnerability in the game. In addition, it is hard work to think about the script, as when Constance convinces D'Artagnan and exposes Richelieu's plan, even establishing the place where an artifact would be that would seal the supposed betrayal. Moreover, admitting that the musketeers would escape France as easily as they would have arrived in England and without facing the slightest resistance is one of those moments of mental laziness that makes the viewer completely abandon the narrative."The Three Musketeers" is nothing more than mediocre and ordinary, common and obvious. Starting with the choice of protagonist, the young Logan Lerman, who had previously wrecked another franchise (Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, 2010). The boy lacks charisma, and his D'Artagnan borders on irritating. Those cast to bring the famous trio of musketeers to life are so apathetic and irrelevant that we don't even care what happens to them: Matthew MacFadyen (Pride and Prejudice, 2005), makes an Athos ready to cry at any moment; Ray Stevenson (The Punisher: In War Zone, 2008), appears as a tamed Porthos, far from the involving rebelliousness of the original; and Luke Evans even has a certain charm, but not enough to recall the conquering Aramis.Reducing the musketeers to stereotypes, Anderson presents Aramis for his religiosity and D'Artagnan for his impetuosity. With nothing to add, they boil down to extras in action scenes, honorable and brave swordsmen fighting after any provocation for a dignified France (if this description gives you goosebumps, imagine seeing them on stage). For her part, Milla Jovovich is improving herself more and more in action cinema, dodging bullets fired at close range and crossing a protected room as if she were her Alice from "Resident Evil"; Meanwhile, Orlando Bloom, desperate to revive Will Turner, is hammy as a villain, forcing an unthreatening voice and a pompadour that would make Elvis jealous. Mads Mikkelsen succeeds in building a fragile Rochefort in the hands of Richelieu, but his last scene in the narrative suffers from chronic embarrassment and involuntary laughter. Finally, Waltz does his best to avoid the cardinal being just a caricature, but fails thanks to the reductionism of the script.Emulating the swashbuckling genre, in his eagerness to be a new "Pirates of the Caribbean", Paul W. S. Anderson, not content with transforming the fight in the center of the city into a reissue of that feature, also adds pirate ships and makes use of the soundtrack by Paul Haslinger, which, although competent, does not come close to those of Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer for the tetralogy of pirates. Anderson even fails in some unnecessary shots like the one of Milady throwing a handkerchief to a fallen D'Artagnan or the one that follows the fall of a pistol from the airship; in the same sense, his predilection for circular tracking shots also has no narrative purpose, serving only to draw the public's attention that there is someone behind the cameras (it would be better if there wasn't). Unable to end his narrative correctly and betting on a pretentious hook for the continuation, the director murdered a classic work and proved his desire to establish a franchise in the best "Pirates of the Caribbean" style. He regrets that these musketeers, not Dumas's, are leagues away from Jack Sparrow and his band.Technically, the production is better. The art direction, combined with the special effects, efficiently reconstructs the French modern age, visiting some historic monuments such as the Palace of Versailles or the Church of Notre dame. However, the fluid animation at the opening of the narrative leaves a lot to be desired, probably influenced by the 3D recording. Due to the imposition of 3D, Alexander Berner's editing has a fluid and dynamic pace, suitable for an action production, but creating the false impression that, due to the time passing quickly, the film is good. However, it is curious that in a good part of the second act, the musketeers do not even appear gracefully, a mistake that can be attributed to Berner.Another novelty - this one, yes, much better thought out and explored - is the steampunk setting, with new weapons and even a drivable ship, which makes for a good aerial battle. But that's it. Passionate about technology and hooked on 3D, Anderson uses the most modern cameras that exist here, but he doesn't manage to create something new, pointing a sword here and throwing some things there in the direction of the public, in addition to creating a sense of depth in large sockets. If it works in the open plan, the same cannot be said for the countless times that "Game of Thrones" models and maps are filmed to show the change of scenery. Sword fights, which could be a differentiator, are little explored. The best of them, the first one, uses "300" slow motion, but that's kind of the end of it. Perhaps due to the difficulty of filming longer shots, with a lot of choreography and few cuts, the director once again opted to use his already known megalomania to blow things up.2011's "The Three Musketeers" abandons its noble origins to become a generic of how a good action movie should be, but without the necessary elements that would set it apart from the sameness of others. Directed without creativity, interpreted without passion and realized as if its only objective were to capitalize on top of the box office, it still commits the audacity of setting up an ending that points to an eventual continuation - something that, by the way, will not happen. And to think that we reached the day when we would miss the 1993 version, which featured Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagnan and the indefectible Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Oliver Platt as Aramis, Athos and Porthos. If we came to consider that production an outrage, it's because we didn't even imagine that we would have this, even more catastrophic, ahead of us.
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