The Three Musketeers: Part I - D'Artagnan

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William N. @williamn50 May 4 Awesome and realistic See more Daniel B @observor Jan 22 Extremely choppy in how it was made and the actors look alike so it is difficult to tell who is who, not to mention the explication is very weak. Poorly made and paced and told, and takes liberties with the source material. See more Janet L @RT25697128 Oct 16 I loved this movie. It was a fun watch. I highly recommend it! You will enjoy! See more Kenny A @RT90004994 Oct 16 Total garbage... Dumas created a timeless novel ...one of his many... seems that the spirit of his imagination is something if an alien entity for those involved into creating of this " masterpiece". See more Matthew D @OceanSage Aug 1 A perfectly fine adaptation of The Three Musketeers carried by the cast. Director Martin Bourboulon’s French swashbuckler The Three Musketeers (2023) is alright. Bourboulon’s direction is very generic, dour, yet serious. I wish the cool sword duels with rapiers were better shot rather than with shaky camerawork and rapid cuts around the action. The direction reminded me more of the 1970s Musketeer films, but colorless with worse lighting. Why is this relatively large budgeted movie shot like a television show? There’s so few colors and not very unique designs. I wish Bourboulon had some style as a director because Alexandre Dumas’ tale of love, friendship, betrayal, corruption, loyalty, and royalty is still gripping. Screenwriters Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte keep things standard and serious, but could have used more humor and romance like the 1993 Three Musketeers or elongated sword duels like the 1970s films. Could we not have gotten gorgeous period costumes and vivid colors? I cannot stop thinking about how dark the lighting is and how poorly shot this movie is when it could have been beautiful and ornate. François Civil is likable as the young romantic musketeer hopeful D'Artagnan. He’s charming, if a bit dull. Vincent Cassel is excellent as the ethical Musketeer named Athos with a compelling somber performance. However, he’s hardly in the film as he’s arrested most of the run-time like they couldn’t afford Cassel for long. Romain Duris is fun as the religious and smooth Aramis, but underused. Pio Marmaï is alright as Porthos and made into a bi-sexual, but given little other development as a character. Eva Green is sexy as the ravishing and conniving Milady de Winter, given a tragic backstory, as she chews the scenery. Green is also hardly in the film. Lyna Khoudri steals all of her scenes as the lovely and charming Constance Bonacieux, who falls in love with D’Artagnan. Louis Garrel is amusing as King Louis XIII with his ideas being sure of mind, yet still manipulated by the villainous Cardinal. Vicky Krieps is alright as Anne of Austria, who loves the Duke of Buckingham in secret. She’s a bit emotional, but I found Khoudri the most convincing among the actresses. Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is fine as her lover The Duke of Buckingham. Éric Ruf’s sinister Cardinal Richelieu, but he’s mostly on the sides. I wish he was being dastardly more on screen rather than most of his works and lines being in the shadows. He’s very underused. I could not tell you who any of the supporting cast is besides these ones. Cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc’s shaky camera shots during the sword duels were very annoying. I liked the close-up and medium shots during the conversations at least. The wide shots of the lavish French locations were nice, but the historic scenery is doing the heavy lifting visually. Mathilde Fouant, Luc Reyrolle, Marc Rossero, and Eric Gies’s dark daylight lighting looks natural, but ugly. The swordsmen for the stunts are pretty good at the very least. Composer Guillaume Roussel’s music is pretty, but ultimately forgettably without any main themes. Sound designers Loïc Gourbe, David Rit, and Grégory Vincent have voices speaking clearly and swords clanging loudly. However, there is one scene where Vicky Krieps shoots a bird and the Wilhelm scream of a man plays loudly that is laugh out loud awful. Costume designer Thierry Delettre created realistic sewn cloaks and dresses, but they sure are ugly. The washed out colors are just hideous. The musketeers are just in black with faded browns and the cardinal’s men are all in faded red. Even the king’s outfits are just black with a bit of white or brown. There’s not vivid blue and white for the musketeers, brilliant crimson for the cardinal, nor royal purple anywhere for the king! All the makeup and hairstyling makes every single person look like they are covered in mud and dirty. It’s probably realistic, but certainly unpleasant to look at for 121 minutes. Overall, I’d just recommend watching the two 1970s Three Musketeers movies for that old school vibe or the 1993 Three Musketeers with Kiefer Sutherland for a much better experience. See more Harry M @RT28933270 05/04/2025 This is different from the original story and book. Porthos is bisexual in this movie and one of the characters is way too old. It started off fantastic until seeing Porthos in bed with a woman and man - What the heck! See more Read all reviews

The Three Musketeers: Part I - D'Artagnan

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