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The Three Musketeers (2011) Paranormal activity 3 Margin call movie
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The story is the same as young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) ventures over to Paris to try to join up with the famous musketeers, a.k.a the king’s royal guard. What he finds upon his arrival is that the musketeers are broken up and the sinister Cardinal (Christoph Waltz) along with his personal guard is now calling the shots in France. As the cunning Cardinal continues to undermine the insecure and oblivious wet-behind-the-ears King Louis XIII (a charismatic Freddie Fox) – via his secret pact with the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) - D’Artagnan runs across the heralded drunk leaders of the musketeers in Porthos (Ray Stevenson), Aramis (Luke Evans), and Athos (Matthew Macfayden); and together they begin to disrupt the agenda that is being set in motion to usurp the throne of France.
Basically, this emulates similar screenplays we’ve see in previous cinematic installments save for two things: a re-insertion of another pertinent character from the literary source in the seductive double-agent, Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich); and a climatic action sequence that can only be described as an intense Pirate of the Caribbean ship battle…in the air. Other than those two items, the flick essentially sticks to the source material regarding the broad strokes and dialogue from Alexandre Dumas, but tweaks a few character personas ever so slightly.
For avid moviegoers, picture this flick as the above mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean franchise blending with the most recent Sherlock Holmes version (mainly due to Jovovich's character). Even the tone of the musical score is a rip-off from those two movies. What all of that translates to be is a modern action/adventure piece with some studio money to spend. And when factoring in the glossed over characters and movie mechanic execution, this is more-or-less a human version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle films from the 90s.
But as stated, they do spend some cash on this sucker. Monster set pieces create an escapism world for all the sword-fighting and flying airships to play in. The costuming and portrayal by each of the performers finds the correct pitch for this period-piece. Issue that arises is that there’s no flow to any of this script. Sure it’s eye-catching with decent cinematography and the action can be amusing. But it comes across as a heartless & thoughtless effort outside of these said action sequences. If that’s what you’re looking for, then have at it. Just know that you’ll be watching the worst adaptation of the treasured Musketeers story. Or sticking with the comparison approach, this is the Wild, Wild, West of action/adventure movies that encompass a light, playful atmosphere. And that’s not a comparison one would want.
Overall, this version of The Three Musketeers is given a little dose of life thanks to the elaborate action sequences sprinkled throughout. Really the best opinion yours truly could give anyone is that this is a generic Pirates of the Caribbean knock-off through-n-through; with a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants style of execution. It’s going to work for some, but will clearly not work for all.
The Three Musketeers (2011) Paranormal activity 3 Margin call movie
Martha Marcy May Marlene Johnny English Reborn 'Oranges and Sunshine
Was it necessary to have director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil franchise) direct yet another version of The Three Musketeers? Certainly not. Is it a tolerable 110 minutes? Yeah. Barely. At least it's light and fluffy.
The story is the same as young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) ventures over to Paris to try to join up with the famous musketeers, a.k.a the king’s royal guard. What he finds upon his arrival is that the musketeers are broken up and the sinister Cardinal (Christoph Waltz) along with his personal guard is now calling the shots in France. As the cunning Cardinal continues to undermine the insecure and oblivious wet-behind-the-ears King Louis XIII (a charismatic Freddie Fox) – via his secret pact with the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) - D’Artagnan runs across the heralded drunk leaders of the musketeers in Porthos (Ray Stevenson), Aramis (Luke Evans), and Athos (Matthew Macfayden); and together they begin to disrupt the agenda that is being set in motion to usurp the throne of France.
Basically, this emulates similar screenplays we’ve see in previous cinematic installments save for two things: a re-insertion of another pertinent character from the literary source in the seductive double-agent, Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich); and a climatic action sequence that can only be described as an intense Pirate of the Caribbean ship battle…in the air. Other than those two items, the flick essentially sticks to the source material regarding the broad strokes and dialogue from Alexandre Dumas, but tweaks a few character personas ever so slightly.
For avid moviegoers, picture this flick as the above mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean franchise blending with the most recent Sherlock Holmes version (mainly due to Jovovich's character). Even the tone of the musical score is a rip-off from those two movies. What all of that translates to be is a modern action/adventure piece with some studio money to spend. And when factoring in the glossed over characters and movie mechanic execution, this is more-or-less a human version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle films from the 90s.
But as stated, they do spend some cash on this sucker. Monster set pieces create an escapism world for all the sword-fighting and flying airships to play in. The costuming and portrayal by each of the performers finds the correct pitch for this period-piece. Issue that arises is that there’s no flow to any of this script. Sure it’s eye-catching with decent cinematography and the action can be amusing. But it comes across as a heartless & thoughtless effort outside of these said action sequences. If that’s what you’re looking for, then have at it. Just know that you’ll be watching the worst adaptation of the treasured Musketeers story. Or sticking with the comparison approach, this is the Wild, Wild, West of action/adventure movies that encompass a light, playful atmosphere. And that’s not a comparison one would want.
Overall, this version of The Three Musketeers is given a little dose of life thanks to the elaborate action sequences sprinkled throughout. Really the best opinion yours truly could give anyone is that this is a generic Pirates of the Caribbean knock-off through-n-through; with a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants style of execution. It’s going to work for some, but will clearly not work for all.
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