Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 2.0
WANTED: NEW CASTING DIRECTOR
It must be awfully hard to mess up a screen adaptation from a great novelist like Alexander Dumas, but here they somehow managed. I hate to sound so cynical, but here goes:The single most thing that really ruined this movie for me was the acting... (or lack thereof) This is what you get when you cast a pretty-boy model who's never acted before and expect him to carry the film in a lead role. The rest of the actors were unknowns or hardly-knowns who didn't perform much better than he did. Even the prestigious roles of Porthos, Athos, and Aramis were demoted down to bit parts and played by extras... Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but were you familiar with any one of those actors who were playing the Musketeers?What prevented this movie from being a total disaster was the cool action scenes plus the magnificent scenery. Still, it has to be one of the most disappointing musketeer films ever. If you decide to watch it, just imagine talented famous actors playing the parts and it won't be so bad after all.