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Category: Three Musketeers movies

  • The Three Musketeers (1993, Stephen Herek)

    The Three Musketeers (1993, Stephen Herek)

    Graphically violent–but still PG–Disney adaptation boasts a shockingly good performance from Charlie Sheen, an appealing one from Oliver Platt, and a good villain turn from Michael Wincott but it’s otherwise fairly dreadful. Bad direction and a bad script (from David Loughery); awful performance from Chris O’Donnell (as D’Artagnan). Kiefer Sutherland tries and fails. Tim Curry’s…

  • The Man in the Iron Mask (1998, Randall Wallace)

    The Man in the Iron Mask (1998, Randall Wallace)

    Now here’s an interesting Stop Button pick. (It was the fiancée’s choice, actually). Most of what I know about Wallace’s 1998 adaptation. It knocked Titanic out of the top spot in the weekend box office… That’s it. And the preview was bad, playing up DiCaprio as… a bad guy? The bad king and the good…