Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 2.0
Not worthy
The Musketeer could have been so good. The locations and sets are so beautiful and there are some beautiful fight scenes. However, those fight scenes are a part of the problem. Wire action is used, but instead of the beautiful grace of Chinese wire actions movies, the action here is a little too speedy and choppy. Also a lot of the fight scenes include moves that seem unnecessarily flashy and impractical--for example, doing a full split on two barrels while fighting a swordsman. Just unnecessary. I think the director wanted the audience to say, "Cool!", but instead they just say, "Huh?"Another bad point is the acting. There are no good performances in this movie. Everyone seems to be reading their lines. All of the parts are miscast. The heros have no charisma, and the villians have no menace. Another thing that really bothered me was that half the actors have American accents and half have French accents. I don't have anything against either accent, but I would like to see some consistency.