Paul W.S Anderson takes a break from zombies to bring a new adaption of the musketeers and their thrilling adventures or so they should be. Athos, Aramis and Parthos are the legendary three musketeers known throughout France for their courage and bravery (in this version they appear to be a renaissance version of the A-Team for some reason...) yet when one adventure in Venice goes wrong with the betrayal of Milady de Winter the three fall from their pedestal of honors and find themselves hiding away, leaving their status to fade to that of a myth. One year on D'Artagnan, an upstart and arrogant young lad travels to Paris in the hopes of becoming a musketeer, while other cogs begin to turn as the Cardinal of France begins his own plot to change the shape of France and take control from the king. The task then falls to the out of luck musketeers who set out to help France in a time of need, gain back their respect and put a stop to the Cardinal's plot.
Matthew Mcfayden(Athos), Luke Evans(Aramis) and Ray Stevenson portray the trio of heroes yet known of them really capture the essence of the film whether that be because of the unbalanced nature of the fact they have no real chemistry between them and act individually rather than with each other. Logan Lerman (D'Artagnan) while supposed to be realivtively arrogant and cocky, he appeared as a annoying twerp who didn't really do anything important the whole film and his character never seemed to go anywhere. Mila Jolovich's character didn't really add much to the presence of narrative and seemed to stand around looking pretty and occasionally acting all tough (Switching to her Resident Evil character at these parts). The two saving graces were Christopher Waltz(The Cardinal) who is incredible at portraying villains and managed to make his scenes actually quite entertaining, along with Orlando Bloom(The Duke of Buckingham) who for some reason had a part that seemed almost cut short yet his was one of the only convincing and genuinely well acted characters. Other actors who had key roles seemed oddly cast or just thrown in for some dire comic relief were Dexter Fletcher (D'Artagnan's father), James Corden(Planchet) and Mads Mikkelsen.
Though the airships, sword fights and light humor in the trailer make it seem like a film that might not be all bad, Paul W.S Anderson manages to completely tear apart the heroes and recreate them as he see's fit by throwing in love stories left, right and center, while in the bits between throwing in over the top CGI and cheesy dialogue. It goes over all the key ideas of the three musketeer stories(Well, highlighting bits) but other than that you can actually see the missing RE title if you close enough as essentially that's what it is, like his over works it's another trip to the flicks where you can turn off your rational brain and be vaguely amused by the usual action, explosive story which is awkwardly mixed with emotional love issues that really aren't important. It's no real masterpiece though if you're looking at seeing this you probably aren't looking for anything too stimulating and instead just some light, fairly kooky entertainment which in some ways it is and in other ways it flies right of the stage into a mess of randomness that just leaves you wanting your money back.
2 / 10
FIN.
Matthew Mcfayden(Athos), Luke Evans(Aramis) and Ray Stevenson portray the trio of heroes yet known of them really capture the essence of the film whether that be because of the unbalanced nature of the fact they have no real chemistry between them and act individually rather than with each other. Logan Lerman (D'Artagnan) while supposed to be realivtively arrogant and cocky, he appeared as a annoying twerp who didn't really do anything important the whole film and his character never seemed to go anywhere. Mila Jolovich's character didn't really add much to the presence of narrative and seemed to stand around looking pretty and occasionally acting all tough (Switching to her Resident Evil character at these parts). The two saving graces were Christopher Waltz(The Cardinal) who is incredible at portraying villains and managed to make his scenes actually quite entertaining, along with Orlando Bloom(The Duke of Buckingham) who for some reason had a part that seemed almost cut short yet his was one of the only convincing and genuinely well acted characters. Other actors who had key roles seemed oddly cast or just thrown in for some dire comic relief were Dexter Fletcher (D'Artagnan's father), James Corden(Planchet) and Mads Mikkelsen.
Though the airships, sword fights and light humor in the trailer make it seem like a film that might not be all bad, Paul W.S Anderson manages to completely tear apart the heroes and recreate them as he see's fit by throwing in love stories left, right and center, while in the bits between throwing in over the top CGI and cheesy dialogue. It goes over all the key ideas of the three musketeer stories(Well, highlighting bits) but other than that you can actually see the missing RE title if you close enough as essentially that's what it is, like his over works it's another trip to the flicks where you can turn off your rational brain and be vaguely amused by the usual action, explosive story which is awkwardly mixed with emotional love issues that really aren't important. It's no real masterpiece though if you're looking at seeing this you probably aren't looking for anything too stimulating and instead just some light, fairly kooky entertainment which in some ways it is and in other ways it flies right of the stage into a mess of randomness that just leaves you wanting your money back.
2 / 10
FIN.
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