Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
27
(23 sources)
27
(23 sources)
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80
Los Angeles Times
For his robust and handsome The Musketeer, Hyams enlisted veteran Hong Kong stunt coordinator Xin-Xin Xiong to stage a clutch of spectacular action sequences that are amusing in the imaginative intricacy of their bravura. Read Full Review » -
63
Chicago Sun-Times
I cannot in strict accuracy recommend this film. It's such a jumble of action and motivation, ill-defined characters and action howlers. Read Full Review » -
60
Mr. Showbiz
Quite handsomely produced, and there's a definite swashbuckling verve to it. Most of the characters have been contemporized, but the actors are engaging. Read Full Review » -
50
USA Today
If this is Dumas, there's a "b" in the middle and an extra "s" at the end. Read Full Review » -
50
New Times (L.A.)
Moves in fits and starts, with some crafty and credible fight choreography by Xin Xin Xiong on either side of the pretty but boring middle hour. Read Full Review » -
50
Variety
A handsome but ho-hum swashbuckler that springs to life only during a few spirited scenes of acrobatic swordplay. Read Full Review » -
50
Miami Herald
Its failure to be extraordinary is thus all the more cutting, and its redundancy all the more unforgivable. Read Full Review » -
50
Washington Post
Rollicks and rolls, thanks mainly to Roth's over-the-top depravity and Xiong's swingin', "Crouching Tiger"-style choreography. Read Full Review » -
40
TV Guide
The novelty value of seeing 17th-century French swordsmen fight like Chinese martial artists doesn't compensate for the film's generally wooden performances and clichéd dialogue. Read Full Review » -
38
Chicago Tribune
A grotesque slumgullion of kung fu, studio schlock and pseudo-Dumas swashbuckling that leaves you longing for Doug Fairbanks --or even Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers. Read Full Review » -
38
Boston Globe
The images are pretty, and Gene Quintano's screenplay gets everybody from point A to point B, though with no discernible knack for wit or subtlety. Read Full Review » -
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30
The New York Times
Dramatically as well as visually, The Musketeer conflicts with itself by trying to blend grand old- school costume drama and MTV- style rhythm and attitude into the same movie. The juxtapositions are often preposterous. Read Full Review » -
30
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25
Entertainment Weekly
Musketeer's fight scenes are underlit, overmiked, and appallingly edited, with none of the spacious grace that even routine Asian action flicks get right. Worse, the narrative scenes make less sense. Read Full Review » -
25
San Francisco Chronicle
The movie lacks the one thing that the classic "Three Musketeers" story can't do without: panache. Read Full Review » -
25
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25
New York Daily News
The Musketeer is the worst Hollywood period film in -- it seems like ages since "American Outlaws." Read Full Review » -
20
LA Weekly
Hyams ("End of Days," "Timecop"), who is his own cinematographer, has no idea how to shoot or compose Xiong's wired choreography. Read Full Review » -
10
Salon.com
There isn't a frame of The Musketeer that's believable even as a Hollywood re-creation of a fantasy world. It's conventionally picturesque, except in the nighttime and interior scenes, which are dark to the point of glaucoma. Read Full Review » -
0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Has the distinction of being the very worst of all the many film versions of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, "The Three Musketeers." Nothing else in Musketeer movie history comes even remotely close to its staggering wretchedness. Read Full Review » -
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