The Three Musketeers (2011)
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
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It doesn’t match the visual luster of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1980) nor the slapdash lows of Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers (2011), but it gets the job done.
Taking for granted that the film plays fast and loose (to say the very, very least) with the Dumas classic, Anderson customizes the old warhorse as if it was one of the muscle cars in his underrated Death Race , adding Resident Evil-style booby traps and slow-motion, bird's-eye-view action shots, impossibly timed hair's-breadth escapes, and a high body count.
Directed this time around by Paul W.S. Anderson who likes to make movies about flying limbs and exploding vehicles (Death Race, Resident Evil), this classic 1844 Alexandre Dumas classic has, in his hands, been transformed into steampunk-inspired migraine factory (in 3D) that relies heavily on green screens and rapid-fire editing to make the old-fashioned swashbuckling tale into something teenagers would actually pay to sit through.
Apart from the involvement of the Death Race helmer and his inexplicable muse – and partner – Jovovich, the pedigree of the writers perhaps best illustrates the situation.