Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 3.0
It's not Errol Flynn, but it is fun
I've never understood the tidal wave of revulsion for The Musketeer. It has a lot of problems - Peter Hyams' typically limited cinematography that rations color like it was wartime, the atrocious swordwork from the blandest bunch of Musketeers ever to have a camera pointed at them, the worst credits sequence of all time and an impressive ladder fight that is really just a reprise of stunt director Xin Xin Xiong's own work in Once Upon a Time in China - but for all that it's an enjoyable romp and David Arnold's unapologetically fullblown romantic score (quite possibly based on his rejected score for Cutthroat Island) is rather splendid. Certainly as modern-day swashbucklers go, it's better than most. The DVD extras are pretty perfunctory though.