This is an unoffficial translation from a wonderful volunteer from Germany
"The Three Musketeers (2011) The Three Musketeers Or: Never insult a Gascon horse! The Three Musketeers France, 17 Century: The young Gascon D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) travels to Paris to be a musketeer like his father. Along the way he is insulted and hurt by Rochefort (Mads Mikkelsen), the leader of Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz)’s bodyguards. In Paris, D'Artagnan wants revenge, an in the pursuit of Rochefort gets involved in three duels - as it turns out just with the legendary musketeers Athos (Matthew McFadyen), Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and Aramis (Luke Evans). Before it comes to a duel, the musketeers are attacked by Rochefort's henchmen. The four of them put their opponents to the flight easily and are rewarded by the young, gullible king Louis XIII.(Freddie Fox). Because Richelieu wants the throne of France for himself, he instigates Athos' former mistress m'lady de Winter (Milla Jovovich) to help steal a diamond necklace of Queen Anne (Juno Temple) and to foist it on the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers have to steal the necklace back in time, because the so-staged affair of the Queen would lead to a war between France and England. But the task is not easy - after all, Buckingham owns airships and connives with the clever m'lady. With the game adaptations, remakes and sequels under its belt director Paul WS Anderson's name is unlikely to be mentioned first when it comes to film an adaptation of a classic of world literature. Despite all predictions of the contrary, he has managed to produce a family-friendly adventure film, which offers humor, spectacular action and an illustrious group of actors. The latest implementation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas is clearly modern, spiked with cheeky, witty anachronisms, and some slow-motion use on the (unspectacular) 3D. While the film stays fairly close to the original in the beginning, with the inclusion of airships in the second half it ascends into its own sphere; who knows, maybe they simply try to jump on the hype, and cross the Musketeers with Pirates. But of course traditional is offered, along with beautiful costumes,, magnificent palaces and spectacular duels. Incidentally, the film had been shot in Germany, in addition to the Babelsberg film studios also in Bavaria, where some castles were used as doubles for French and Italian locations. The European production is thoroughly evident in the cast. Especially on the side of the enemy, well-known names pile up. Til Schweiger may thus provide some unintentional laughs with his accent, and Christoph Waltz is in his usual post-Oscar mode: evil, but not as bad as one would like. Orlando Bloom obviously has fun dressed-up for peacock Buckingham clearly as a villain twirling his beard. And because he can be so wonderfully condescending and self-indulgent, it's really fun to watch him there. Delicious is the uptight-naive king with his boyish moustache. The very-youthful Logan Lerman as D'Artagnan is indeed a great popular figure, but has the same problem as the three musketeers, who, amazingly, are not represented by any of the big names in the film business: They are all shown far too little. With all the action the characterization is simply missing. Thus the friendship of the four is only hinted at, the Musketeer's motto "One for all and all for one!" degenerates into mere side note. This is partly because the figure of m'lady, played by Milla Jovovich, was moved to the center. Jovovich - who, as we should mention, is married to the director - can loll in so many slo-mo scenes, it's really annoying. Rather we would have used the minutes of film for other, more interesting characters... | |
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