Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 1.0
As Bad As It's Said To Be
"The Musketeer" is one of the worst films that I've ever sat through. I can't really say that I was disappointed with the movie. I had read the reviews here before seeing it. I really just wanted to see it for myself out of idle curiosity. Well, you know how the saying goes---"Curiosity killed the cat." What does baffle me though is that I've actually read reviews by people who seem to be under the impression that if someone hates this movie, it's merely because it isn't faithful to Dumas' novel. Trust me, folks. This one is bad on its own. It doesn't have to be compared to any book in order to get a bad review. I watched this movie with someone else who has never read any of Dumas' work and he agreed with me entirely that the movie was garbage. It is bad in every possible way. The acting is bad. The writing is bad. The camera work and lighting is bad. If nothing else though I have learned something from this experience. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. In the future, I'm not going to let idle curiosity get the better of me and when a movie gets as many negative reviews as this one has, I'm going to stay away from it.