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blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: The Three Musketeers
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All-star adaptation relies almost as heavily on laughs as on action, with Michael York’s D’Artagnan simultaneously gymnastic and clumsy in his sword fights; he’s just come to Paris to become a Musketeer and, while delayed from that goal, finds camaraderie with all-ready Musketeers Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay; he also finds romance with…
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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…
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