The Musketeer
All for one seems to be the right phrase here. This movie only focuses on D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis do appear and do stuff, but it’s not really about them. I think this film was geared towards the teen market. D’Artagnan is played by a male model turned actor? He does a fine job, but I wasn’t dying or anything. Mena Suvari plays the love interest and Tim Roth plays the one eyed Febre, (mike wincott – the crow villain, played him in the Disney one).
The movie is the basic musketeer storyline. The cardinal is a bastard and wants to overthrow the king. Febre kills D’s father, the musketeers are disbanded etc. But everything happens rather fast and no characters are really developed. I love the Disney Three Musketeers and the Leo Dicaprio Man in the Iron Mask (I really love Iron Mask). That was the movie that made me love D’Artagnan. He was torn between keeping an oath to protect the king and a silent oath to protect the public. The king was a bastard but D swore an oath to protect him…wow. Tough call to make here, his honour is at stake.
In this movie its more just matter of fact. Here is the bad guy, he must be killed. D is the young hero who must do it etc.
That being said the scenery and photography are 5 stars. And the sword play is truly amazing (thanks to the guys who did Matrix and Iron Monkey). I love the asian influence in this film in terms of the staging of fights.
All in all this could’ve been a great film, but since it was geared towards teens, they dumbed it down a bit…but still enjoyable if you go in knowing that. I wanted man in the iron mask, but he, I already own that movie.
3.5/5.
--J-KraKen--[>
All for one seems to be the right phrase here. This movie only focuses on D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis do appear and do stuff, but it’s not really about them. I think this film was geared towards the teen market. D’Artagnan is played by a male model turned actor? He does a fine job, but I wasn’t dying or anything. Mena Suvari plays the love interest and Tim Roth plays the one eyed Febre, (mike wincott – the crow villain, played him in the Disney one).
The movie is the basic musketeer storyline. The cardinal is a bastard and wants to overthrow the king. Febre kills D’s father, the musketeers are disbanded etc. But everything happens rather fast and no characters are really developed. I love the Disney Three Musketeers and the Leo Dicaprio Man in the Iron Mask (I really love Iron Mask). That was the movie that made me love D’Artagnan. He was torn between keeping an oath to protect the king and a silent oath to protect the public. The king was a bastard but D swore an oath to protect him…wow. Tough call to make here, his honour is at stake.
In this movie its more just matter of fact. Here is the bad guy, he must be killed. D is the young hero who must do it etc.
That being said the scenery and photography are 5 stars. And the sword play is truly amazing (thanks to the guys who did Matrix and Iron Monkey). I love the asian influence in this film in terms of the staging of fights.
All in all this could’ve been a great film, but since it was geared towards teens, they dumbed it down a bit…but still enjoyable if you go in knowing that. I wanted man in the iron mask, but he, I already own that movie.
3.5/5.
--J-KraKen--[>
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