Product: The Musketeer (2001)
Rating: 3.0
Born with a Gift of Laughter and a Sense that the World was Mad...
Make that 3+.Hey, I like my musketeers with a fair helping of daring, a twinkle in the eye, a sense for the droll, and some of that old-time gallantry too, and if directors see fit to take liberties with antique technology and to push the physical limits of human strength, agility and endurance in order to put on a good show then I say go for it and the critics be damned.And, of course, this is not a film I would expect to be winning critics' awards. It's all about entertainment. Crack open your favorite beverage, sit back and take it for what it is. A galloping romp. Perhaps not the greatest romp ever filmed, but close enough.That the film may stray from the Dumas canon is of no consequence to me whatever, and indeed the film's title as much as informs the viewer that we may be going off the well-beaten path. The acting, in my view, was adequate to its purpose. Deneuve was Deneuve and the principal cast carried the day.