YOU’LL CRAVE the candy bar more than the movie
By Monica Dekany
Western Sun staff writer
“The Three Musketeers” is an action packed adventure that finds young D’Artagnan fighting his way to join Porthos, Athos and Aramis to recover the Queen’s necklace and expose a conspiracy to overthrow the King of France.
The storyline may be familiar, but with director Paul W.S. Anderson at the helm mudding the film with distracting subplots, it plays out more like “Pirates 5” than “Three Musketeers.”
Adding big name actors such as Orlando Bloom as the dashing Duke of Buckingham, and Milla Jovovich as the deadly assassin Milady de Winter, do little to pacify those who paid to watch.
The extravagant costumes add color and authenticity, while the eye-catching cinematography makes it bearable to watch.
The lack of true chemistry between characters shows the flaws in a movie that fails to deliver real entertainment, and instead throws sword fighting and floating ships at the audience in hopes of distracting from the theatrical mess the director has created.
Every character in the movie overly uses the famous phrase, “All for one and one for all,” and it is this redundancy that gives this movie such a bad review.
“The Three Musketeers ” is rated PG-13
Our score: * 1/2
