geojohns-262-754857 Putting aside the steampunk effects (which I enjoyed) the movie stuck quite closely to the original plot. I thought that the acting was good as was the dialogue. The 3 musketeers actually looked like the 3 musketeers.James Cordon's comic turn was as good as Roy Kinnear's. Christoph Waltz was a more nuanced Richelieu than Charlton Heston. I saw my first 3 musketeer film over 60 years ago. This seems to be among the best,for my money. I rarely watch a movie more than once./ I have seen this three times and have not been bored yet

david-56274 This is really a poor movie. Don't waste your time on this movie....

blrnani Many people have a reverence for these classic Dumas works and imho the definitive rendition was the David Lean series. Consequently, they will find the title of this hodgepodge of a film rather misleading, as it only provides a very loose framework to hang the stories on. I say 'stories' because there are several going on simultaneously, which makes things a bit confusing, especially as the logic that is supposed to hold such things together too often gets jettisoned. First of all, this is a 'director's wife' vehicle, so Mila Jovovitch gets to do her Resident Evil tricks in a 17thC context. But it is also a teen hearthrob vehicle for Logan Lerman, so we get all the brash arrogance one would expect from the leading figure in a high-school play. And then there's the HK martial arts, Matrix and PotC action that is the dominant feature of the film. The cast is actually good, but somewhat wasted as they are basically connecting elements to keep the action flowing. Anyway, I think if one is forewarned that this film is a comedy that merely uses the subject matter as a loose structure, much as the Monty Python team used the Arthurian legend and the Bible, then it will be far more enjoyable than expecting another rendering of the Three Musketeers story. Whether you can get round the technological abuses is another matter - as it takes us into Connecticut Yankee territory. I really don't see where they can go from that closing sequence, as it would suggest a complete rewriting of European history, or a sudden updating to a WWII-type scenario, with the musketeers leading French resistance to the hated British occupying power (who consider that they're merely taking back the Norman territories that were stolen from them).

Kirpianuscus I am not a fan of Dumas novel. and this film is far to be the most pledge for change the opinion. because it is one of films useful to see only for the actors. and only if you are the admirers of theirs. the story is out of sense. the innovations are bizarre. and the exotic air ships are the only reason for not forget the film just after final credits. sure, after so many adaptations, the surprises are far to be real expected. but the absence of purpose for this project, full of colors and ambitions is the basic problem. Orlando Bloom , Milla Jovovich ,Christoph Walz are lost in a story who has nothing - humor, accuracy, logic or status of reasonable adaptation. short, a made film only for be 3 D. nothing more. and, maybe, for a part of public, a nice film. if you are wise/polite to ignore the book.