Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 1.0
Unique achievement...
...although a dubious one: this movie somehow manages to make Alexandre Dumas boring. I know how Hollywood works, so I didn't go into this movie expecting the cinematic equivalent of a literary masterpiece. Hell, I wasn't even expecting it to be 100% faithful to Dumas' work. But I DID expect to be entertained, and the movie failed that expectation miserably. The plot completely failed to engage me...to put it simply, it just wasn't exciting. I spent the majority of the movie wondering when it would be over and I could go home (and for the record, if I had paid for the ticket, I would have demanded my money back). The fight scenes were okay, I suppose, if you could get past the incongruity of a Frenchman of that time period mastering martial arts, but they were brief and poorly filmed. I might consider tempering my review with the fact that I don't really care that much for mindless action movies if it weren't for the fact that my boyfriend, who does like mindless action movies, found this movie as boring as I did.The scenery and the costumes were good, and Justin Chambers isn't bad on the eyes despite his lack of acting ability, and good actors like Tim Roth, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, and Stephen Rea turned in decent performances despite the poor lack of material to work with, but overall this movie was a waste of film.