Kitty's Corner

Sunday was "Big Cinema Day" here, which means that you can see any movies you want at half price. It's pretty expensive to go the movies here - tickets starts at around 80DKK (>10EUR) - so this is a nice opportunity for us!

We decided to go watch two movies: "The Three Musketeers" and "Friends with Benefits". Guess who chose which! lol

So anyway - here's the first review; "The Three Musketeers".

This is not the first time Alexandre Dumas' book has been made into a film, but it's been nearly twenty years since the last one. Back then it was Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt who played the roles of the brave musketeers. Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans plays Arthos, Porthos and Aramis respectively in this updated 2011 version.



All the basic elements from the book are present: A young man dreams of walking in his father's footsteps and to serve the King. He travels to Paris, where he runs into a trio of former musketeers. They reveal a conspiracy devised by Cardinal Richelieu in order to remove the very young and vulnerable king. And this is where the similarities end...

This version involves not only the traditional fight scenes in which the vastly outnumbered Musketeers trounce the opposition with style and ease, but also heavily armed airships and air battles in the sky over Paris, raids on underground hidden safes in Venice and Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich), a kind of double agent, who wires herself down from a tower in Versailles, via a device hidden in her corset. Past film makers must have skipped these particular chapters, when they made their screen versions. King Louis XIII is also characterized very well, and amusingly, by Freddie Fox.

It all worked very well for me. The only actor who didn't shine was Logan Lerman, who played D'Artagnan. I didn't like the way he acted, I found him really annoying - maybe he's not 'strong' enough an actor to carry that character. Please note that the cast also includes a Dane, namely Mads Mikkelsen, who also played the leading part in Valhalla Rising, and bad guy in James Bond movie Casino Royale.

I really enjoyed this movie, and had some good laughs here and there. I especially enjoyed some of the fighting scenes, where they kind of played it in Slo Mo sequences - that was really well made.All the action sequences were very well done, quite exciting in fact - and the characters were all quite well portrayed (exception noted above), with a good amount of understated humour.

out of 6.