So, from what I understand, some press screenings of Summit’s The Three Musketeers have already taken place and the film currently holds a 29% rating at Rotten Tomatoes with quotes such as Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) saying, “Seriously: What the hell?” and Peter Howell of the Toronto Star saying, “The very existence of this film illustrates barrel-scraping desperation of the Hollywood kind.” Not a good start, and it would appear that’s where it will end… for now.
My screening of Three Musketeers here in Seattle was originally slated for Tuesday, October 18. It was cancelled and it wasn’t rescheduled. I’m debating going to a matinee on Friday morning and maybe you can help me out… Check out the newly released first five minutes of this 2011 edition of Alexandre Dumas’ classic, which is also in 3D mind you, and see what you think. Worth my time, or should I say, is it worth my time to see it just so I can review it?
You can watch it in high definition at Apple.
The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D.
