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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0025192176524
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 26, 2002
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 35528
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Adapted from the Dumas classic The Three Musketeers and set in 17th-century France, The Musketeer focuses on young D'Artagnan (Justin Chambers), who revives the musketeers in a campaign against Cardinal Richelieu (Stephen Rea) and his vile henchman Febre (Tim Roth), who killed D'Artagnan's parents 14 years earlier. The heroes must rescue the abducted queen (Catherine Deneuve) and her comely confidante Francesca (Mena Suvari), with the obvious highlight being D'Artagnan and Febre's inevitable showdown, which trades 'All for one, and one for all' for ludicrous swordplay on teetering ladders. The film gets a trendy boost from Hong Kong action choreographer Xin Xin Xiong (Time and Tide, Double Team), but the results are decidedly mixed. While director Peter Hyams achieves convincing period atmosphere (lighting by torch and candles, etc.), he's burdened by a lifeless script and a bland leading man. The Musketeer is lightly entertaining, but another viewing of Rob Roy will provide greater satisfaction. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I'm man enough to stick up for this movie
Since there is alot of people putting tis movie down I'm man enough to say it was a good movie. Mabey not as good as The 3 Musketeers but I'll say it's a close second. Yeah mabey the acting was not the greatest from some people but it's still better than some done by the garbage hollywood pumps out now.This was a fun film to watch and I for one was entertained though the whole thing. It's not a docudrama as some reviewers seem to think but just a fun movie.
Rating: - Missing the Target....
"The Three Musketeers" has been a Hollywood staple for decades. 2001's "The Musketeer" was an attempt to update the franchise using the latest in movie special effects and a focus on the character of D'Artagnan. Unfortunately, it falls short of being a successful adaption.
In "The Musketeer", Justin Chambers plays D'Artagnan as a hunky superwarrior, capable of fantastic feats of martial arts and swordsmanship on a par with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." The movie's traditional ... Read More
Rating:  - It's not Errol Flynn, but it is fun
I've never understood the tidal wave of revulsion for The Musketeer. It has a lot of problems - Peter Hyams' typically limited cinematography that rations color like it was wartime, the atrocious swordwork from the blandest bunch of Musketeers ever to have a camera pointed at them, the worst credits sequence of all time and an impressive ladder fight that is really just a reprise of stunt director Xin Xin Xiong's own work in Once Upon a Time in China - but for all that it's an enjoyable romp and ... Read More
Rating: - Mediocre at best
I will not review this based on the book, as I was never a big fan of the book anyways, but on the film itself.
Mostly, I simply found most of the characters to be bland and lifeless, with the notible exception of the villian Febre, and the plot and dialogue to be fairly weak and unexciting.
The swordfighting skills displayed in the movie were dazzling, but (as another reviewer also mentioned) considering that everyone appeared almost identicle, it was a little hard to tell at times who ... Read More
Rating:  - it can't get any worse than this
it's just awful. although the movie is allegedly based on a famous novel by dumas (the three musketeers), the movie violates both the spirit and the plot of the original story. There is no Milady, D'Artagnan's young lover does not die, D'Artagnan does not go on a mission to the UK, and so forth and so on.
What makes the movie truly unwatchable is not just the fact that it has little if anything to do with Dumas's masterpiece, but is the fact that the movie is phenomenally poorly scripted and ... Read More
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