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Musketeer -- Guest Opinion by Cormac, October 5, 2001
The movie started out laying down one of the major plot threads. You see
him hurt a rather mean looking advocate of the cardinals power after he
kills his parents. Predicably enough his father's sword master takes this
child under his wing and teaches him the art of the sword.
14 years later, neither the advocate (can't remember the name), nor the
swords master has aged, D'Artagnan has, though. But I digress, the story
really starts out in a little tavern were he gets into a gratuitous
battle, him and three or four others, which is not bad, it is pretty.
Once he reaches Paris in search of the musketeers he finds them in ruin,
their powers and colors stripped. Here he meet the three traditional
musketeers, do not exactly meet up to the common stereotypes but that is
good.
The story digresses from there. We meet his love interest, the one
character that does not share their name with the book.
The final quest seems to protect both the queen, the english ambassdor
and the love intrest from disgrace, embarassment and death. Not a bad
thing.
The final assult of the castle. Three words: Cut The ROPE!!!! They are
dancing and prancing on the side of the tower not once realizing that
they could just cut the rope and the problem is solved. But to be
truthful they did figure this out, at the end, and it was only D'Artagnan.
The ladder dance. Did I miss something here? Did they have to wait for
that Xena set to open up? Being a little outrageous is just the start of
the complaints. The death scene. I might spoil it for those who haven't
seen it but a dagger to the gullet, now they start being realistic.
After a movie filled with semi-outrageous sword play they start being
realistic now? *sigh*
Over all it was a good movie, great entertainment value, but if you are
disturbed by the lack of realistic 17th century swordplay I wouldn't
recommend it. Suspend disbelief.
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