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Musketeer, The
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense action violence and some sexual material
Starring
Justin Chambers,
Catherine Deneuve,
Stephen Rea,
Tim Roth,
and
Mena Suvari
Peter Hyman's action-adventure weds the classic swordplay and chivalry of Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" with the gravity-defying dazzle of Hong Kong action choreography. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Gene Quintano
Alexandre Dumas père (novel The Three Musketeers)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Hyams
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 26, 2002
Video: February 26, 2002
Theatrical: September 7, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
For his robust and handsome The Musketeer, Hyams enlisted veteran Hong Kong stunt coordinator Xin-Xin Xiong to stage a clutch of spectacular action sequences that are amusing in the imaginative intricacy of their bravura.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I cannot in strict accuracy recommend this film. It's such a jumble of action and motivation, ill-defined characters and action howlers.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Quite handsomely produced, and there's a definite swashbuckling verve to it. Most of the characters have been contemporized, but the actors are engaging.
50
USA Today
Mike Clark
If this is Dumas, there's a "b" in the middle and an extra "s" at the end.

50
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Moves in fits and starts, with some crafty and credible fight choreography by Xin Xin Xiong on either side of the pretty but boring middle hour.

50
Variety
Joe Leydon
A handsome but ho-hum swashbuckler that springs to life only during a few spirited scenes of acrobatic swordplay.

50
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
Its failure to be extraordinary is thus all the more cutting, and its redundancy all the more unforgivable.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Rollicks and rolls, thanks mainly to Roth's over-the-top depravity and Xiong's swingin', "Crouching Tiger"-style choreography.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The novelty value of seeing 17th-century French swordsmen fight like Chinese martial artists doesn't compensate for the film's generally wooden performances and clichéd dialogue.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A grotesque slumgullion of kung fu, studio schlock and pseudo-Dumas swashbuckling that leaves you longing for Doug Fairbanks --or even Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers.
38
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The images are pretty, and Gene Quintano's screenplay gets everybody from point A to point B, though with no discernible knack for wit or subtlety.
33
Portland Oregonian
Diana Abu-Jaber
Appallingly flat.

30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Dramatically as well as visually, The Musketeer conflicts with itself by trying to blend grand old- school costume drama and MTV- style rhythm and attitude into the same movie. The juxtapositions are often preposterous.

30
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
East/West fusion aside, The Musketeer is a stale Euro-pudding.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
The movie lacks the one thing that the classic "Three Musketeers" story can't do without: panache.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
What a stupefying thing it is.

25
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
An example of lazy, dumb and couldn't-care-less hack movie making.
25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The Musketeer is the worst Hollywood period film in -- it seems like ages since "American Outlaws."

20
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Hyams ("End of Days," "Timecop"), who is his own cinematographer, has no idea how to shoot or compose Xiong's wired choreography.

10
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
There isn't a frame of The Musketeer that's believable even as a Hollywood re-creation of a fantasy world. It's conventionally picturesque, except in the nighttime and interior scenes, which are dark to the point of glaucoma.

0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Has the distinction of being the very worst of all the many film versions of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, "The Three Musketeers." Nothing else in Musketeer movie history comes even remotely close to its staggering wretchedness.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Unspeakably awful.


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