Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 1.0
Lackluster waste of time
Many reviewers have done an excellent job detailing the shortcomings of this movie. I wish I would have looked here before renting it. On the plus side, The Musketeer has some nice looking sets and some well lit scenes. On the negative side, the lead actor is awful, the script trite and humorless, the whole presentation is just bland and unengaging. I didn't even like Tim Roth, who is just too sickeningly evil and even HE can't bring the part to life. Worst of all was the action choreography and editing. The fighting was so poorly staged and cut that I had to go back 2 or 3 times just to figure out what happened. Did anybody storyboard this stuff out? Why do these filmakers think they need to cut the action so fast? You rarely get a good look at the Musketeer when he's fighting. I quit watching after the 2/3 point.