Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 1.0
Drama? No. Adventure? Not really. Comedy? Oh YES!
As soon as the credits begin at the start of this movie(accompanied by the most awful attempts at heroic-sounding music and cheesy graphics), you know you're not going to be seeing a great movie.Aside from the oft-mentioned lack of chasing of the escaping carraige by the guards, there are several other parts in this movie that just don't make sense. My personal favorite:D'Artagnan gets away on a carraige with some compatriots, while being chased by Tim Roth and his men on horses. Inventive as always, D'Artagnan explodes some gun powder barrels on a stone bridge after his group passes over it. Despite the fact that the explosion almost instantaneously becomes a 6-inch high little smoker, leaving the bridge completely intact, Tim Roth and his men all stop. Tim and D'Artagnan exchange the evil eye, but, no! Tim Roth cannot follow! His horse could not possibly jump over the smoke, nor could it simply ride through.The acting, as well as the plot, is dreadful. How did Mena Suvari get into this picture? Is it because she says her lines with as much expression as a head of a lettuce? Looks even more out of place in a period movie than Leonardo did in Titanic?Justin Chambers is a miserable D'Artagnan, and his character is completely mauled, like everyone else. I cannot think of a single character in this movie that is unchanged from the book.Even though this movie is a deplorably bad interpretation of book, it is also a deplorable waste of film. Did anyone in this movie actually think they were doing something intelligent?Despite all this, I actually had an immensely fun time watching it just because there is so much to make fun of. So, if you haven't seen it, I would recommend seeing it once because it's such a [poor] movie that it really comes off as quite amusing.