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The Musketeer is a period piece actioner about the famous and often told story of D'Artagnan and the Musketeers who were the King of France's own army caught in a political mess as the Cardinal Richelieu tried to dethrone the King.  The story is set against the backdrop of a brewing war between the British and the Spanish that would leave France in the middle so to speak.  Young D'Artagnan as a boy watched his father, an ex-Musketeer, and his mother killed by one of Richelieu's men, Febre.  Now he goes to France fully trained as a Musketeer but yet isn't one to find the man who killed his parents.  He gets the chance but not before he is embroiled in everything else that is going on.

The Musketeer is a fairly decent lowbrow action movie.  It lacks a lot of style, any semblance of better than average script writing, and no decent acting on anyone's part.  Instead the film relies on costumes, make-up jobs, prop-filled sets, and acrobatic moves in fights.  The action is good if nothing original.  The stunts are fine but without style or panache they are just missing that something that would have really made them stand out.  Basically it is an almost martial arts retelling of the classic Three Musketeers story, and not a good one.  The focus on D'Artagnan only immediately drops a huge and important part of what made it such a good story to begin with, and no effort was made to fill in that void.  For pretty stunts this is your movie, for anything other than eye candy forget about it.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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