There is a famous Woody Allen joke in which he boasts taking a course in speed reading and then finishing War and Peace in less than an hour.
"It was about Russia".
It looks like scriptwriter Gene Quintano (author of Police Academy 3, 4, 5, enough said) used the same approach with Dumas' classic: he skimmed through the book in twenty minutes and managed to understand the story was set in 17th century France.
Oh, and some characters have the right names.
Roth, Rea and Deneuve sleepwalk through their roles, probably focusing on the rich paychecks for which they accepted to be humiliated. Useless Athos, Aramis and Porthos might as well have been cut. Mena Suvari is unspeakably atrocious as Francesca - they even got the name wrong (it was Constance). As D'Artagnan, a mopey Justin Chambers is awful and miscast.
Set-pieces are over-the-top ridiculous, with an overblown direction by Peter Hyams - who somehow managed to make two decent movies (Outland and The Relic), but is otherwise responsible for some really horrible stuff.
The Musketeer makes the embarrassing Disney version look like a masterpiece.
2/10
"It was about Russia".
It looks like scriptwriter Gene Quintano (author of Police Academy 3, 4, 5, enough said) used the same approach with Dumas' classic: he skimmed through the book in twenty minutes and managed to understand the story was set in 17th century France.
Oh, and some characters have the right names.
Roth, Rea and Deneuve sleepwalk through their roles, probably focusing on the rich paychecks for which they accepted to be humiliated. Useless Athos, Aramis and Porthos might as well have been cut. Mena Suvari is unspeakably atrocious as Francesca - they even got the name wrong (it was Constance). As D'Artagnan, a mopey Justin Chambers is awful and miscast.
Set-pieces are over-the-top ridiculous, with an overblown direction by Peter Hyams - who somehow managed to make two decent movies (Outland and The Relic), but is otherwise responsible for some really horrible stuff.
The Musketeer makes the embarrassing Disney version look like a masterpiece.
2/10