Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
It is what it is!
MovieAddict - wrote on 04/01/2013
This version opens with Alexandre Dumas' famous trio of swashbucklers – Athos (Matthew MacFadyen), Aramis (Luke Evans) and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) stealing airship blueprints by Leonardo Da Vinci in Venice. They are betrayed by their partner in crime, Athos's lover Milady De Winter (Milla Jovovich), as she hands the blueprints over to her partner in crime, the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom here kinda reminds me of Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow but it's all good ). The Musketeers are disbanded by Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) back in France and Athos and his buddies become disillusioned and bitter (especially Athos, whose heart is broken). Soon the three friends are joined by a young peasant named D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman), who travels to Paris to become a Musketeer, like his …
Rating of
2/4
Almost a cliché. Scenes are seen before.
Rod - wrote on 03/12/2012
With a background of betrayal on their picture, the legendary Three Musketeers, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos are again set to fix things for France. Meanwhile, an ambitious man D'Artagnan came in to Paris to pursue his dream. An adventure which started with a superfluous duel between ex-musketeers and a wanna-be continues with D'Artagnan being the fourth of the Three Musketeers.
***
This supposed action-packed movie lead by a young actor Logan Lerman seemed to fall short in many aspects (Honestly, I expected these). First. the movie failed to give us the great visual we hoped to see. You can see on the background set that it wasn't really going for a believable setting. Second, the movie failed to exhibit new actions in the big screen. Lastly, hmmm, I didn't appreciate any of cast's …
