Rating: 
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Release date(s): 14th October 2011

Quick review:

“The Three Musketeers” is one of the all-time preferred books for the avid readers. When I heard that a movie based on The Three Musketeers was going to be released, I was actually thrilled, and the excitement rose-up as soon as I saw images of the stunning localities in Bavaria and came to knew that Christoph Waltz, who is much-known for his ‘Inglorious Basterds’ fame, will be enacting my much-loved character Richelieu. When I saw the promo, I was surprised even more by the Matrix style bullet elusion, a Ninja diver, zeppelin air-ships, and much more.

However, after watching the movie, I have to declare, it was definitely not an entire waste of time and money. Viewers will certainly be thankful for the 3D version, as there are a few good visual-effects like a bird’s vision onto a decorated map of France.

Story:

Enacted by Logan Lerman, D’Artagnan departs to turn into a musketeer and lands in Paris to locate the well-known trio Athos (Matthew Macfadyen), Aramis (Luke Evans) and Porthos (Ray Stevenson), who are scattered and de-commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz). Following a daring fight in the company of the Cardinal’s protectors, the youthful but unskilled King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox) restores Athos, Aramis and Porthos to their previous grade and even has D’Artagnan unite them for superior assess. The remarkable group of four then realizes the Cardinal’s lethal plan to conquer the King.
By using the Athos’s past lover, the gorgeous yet tedious killer M’lady De Winter (Milla Jovovich), the Cardinal makes unfaithfulness among the Queen (Juno Temple) and England’s Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). By carrying out so, the tricky cardinal plans to set free warfare on the European Continent, and in the procedure plots to set out the King and Queen of France, at the same time as obtaining the throne of France for himself. It is now up to the four musketeers to put off France and England from tumbling into battle by preventing M’lady De Winter from carrying out the Cardinals wicked strategy.

Screenplay, Direction and other technicalities:

The basic plot is extremely complicated, filled with loop holes, and in the closing stages doesn’t seize up to any sort of analysis. The fairy-tale is okay, but the screenplay is a bit of dissatisfaction. The film was a bit funny too, in addition to good action. The plot looked like to go by excessively speedily in my view, but I just feel the film is fine for entertainment.
Direction was pretty well done and the use of 3D has been shaped out extremely fine, more often than not adding up to the ambience and just a few times poking the viewers in the face with something. In all-purpose, the FX’s are astonishing. The sets, costumes and props are stunning, as lavish as they have to be. Dialogue is typically awful or average, in the midst of one or two smart lines. The humorist aid is not humorous on the whole; nevertheless this can make you laugh quietly.

Performances:

Three Musketeers is D’Artagnan, and this one is logical. He was not horrible, but could be attractive. Athos, Porthos and Aramis are in the middle of the many well-cast performers. Milla is yummy as the misleading double-agent Lady Winter, Waltz is dead right as Richelieu, Mikkelsen is a dreadful baddie, and Fox as the king does in good health.

Final verdict:

Though the substance here is less, but is recommended to any person who welcomes the stupid entertainment in the company of astounding visuals from time to time.