The Three Musketeers: Part 1 D'Artagnan

Let me start by saying that I have been waiting for this movie to come to DVD since I saw the trailers. I will cover the DVD stuff first.1. The DVD offers audio in French and English. I went with the French because other people have said the English Dub is horrible.2. There are English Subtitles. I watched the movie in French audio with English Subtitles and it was amazing.Now to cover the movie. I think every actor that worked on this movie is French and they were perfect. I loved that this movie was NOT a Hollywood mess were everyone is beautiful beyond belief, everyone wears incredible clothes that are always perfectly clean, and everyone struts around in the mindset that they are the main character. The people looked like everyday normal people and the settings were true to the time period and filthy like that time period was. Clothes and people were dirty in this movie because that is how it really was back then.I will say that this movie kinda expects that the viewer will have an overview or basic knowledge of the 3 Musketeers story. Things are shown in this movie and not just told. Too many movies have a narrator to explaineverything. This movie doesn't do that. This movie assumes that the audience is intelligent with enough common sense to figure the basics out. For example:Only the Musketeers and D'Artangon are introduced by name and that is when they are about to duel each other. Cardinal Richeliu is not introduced but if you know the story you know who he is and what he is up to (over throwing the King and seizing power for himself). Buckingham is not introduced. All you see is a man getting off a ship and joining other men on the beach and riding off on a horse. When our heroes run to England to retrieve something, all you see if the white cliffs of Dover to clue you in that they have reached England. If you pay attention to what the actors are saying and doing, you can follow easily but I recommend having a basic idea of the 3 Musketeers story to help you understand.There are fresh ideas and plot points to make this a great movie and different from every other 3 Musketeer movie. I am not an expert on the time period and all the rest but it felt very authentic and like it was filmed back in the 1600's. The fight scenes were incredible and not focused on being over board with bood and guts flying everywhere. I really enjoyed this movie and I can't wait for part 2.

Eva Green can do no wrong! Excellent retelling, what the first few versions should have been like. She always brings a depth and complexity to her characters, that comes through with the slightest look, without a word spoken.

If you prefer your Three Musketeers more serious and less comedic then I recommend both films in this two-part story. The first film sets up the tale of D'artagnan, his introduction to the musketeers and subsequent slip into political palace intrigue.You are also introduced to the story's Femme Fatale Milady de Winter Spy and Assassin for Cardinal Richelieu and her story is set up for completion in the second film.

I am a big fan of the source material, but this film does not do it justice. The pacing is slow like a drama, but the amount of events they try to fit into a 2 hour movie skips a great deal of the character building and plot development that dramas rely on. Relationships feel forced as there are multiple instances on screen where characters have only just met, but are meant to be in love or extremely loyal friends, with no context, scenes to show this, or indication that time has gone by since first meeting.Eva Green and Vincent Cassel are excellent actors, but their lines were so bland that even their skill couldn't much come through. This was bad directing, bad writing, and a clear cash grab.The only redeeming quality is good cinematography, but that really only helps balance out the bad choreography. To top things off, the movie ends on a trite cliffhanger which is even more annoying because its a boring slog of 2 hours only for there to also be no conclusion. 4/10. PS: I enjoyed that it was in French, and really wanted to like the movie. It just wasn't good, and not even in a "fine for a one time entertainment" mindset, as just about every facet of the movie was done badly enough to be distracting.

I enjoyed this movie. Fun break from reality.

The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan is part one of a lavish, big-budget, French-produced adaptation of Dumas’s action-adventure epic.This film is perfection and may very well be my favorite adaptation. Seriously. This is why I have a musketeers tattoo on my wrist.The script is excellent. It adapts so much of Dumas’s story and does it so well. Somehow it manages to pack a ton of story in a perfectly-paced two hours that never feels rushed but never drags. It’s beautifully directed with sweeping visuals. The sword fights are stunningly choreographed and perfectly filmed. The romance is both heady and tragic—the Queen and Buckingham, Athos and Milady, D’Artagnan and Constance. And, my god, it’s so refreshing to watch a movie shot on location in real places again.The cast is amazing. All of them. Francois Civik shines as D’Artagnan. But the standouts for me though were Vincent Cassel and Eva Green. Cassel is the perfect choice for Athos; noble, tragic, honorable, and formidable. Green was born to play Milady; mysterious, deadly, intoxicating, and beautiful.I really can’t sell this enough. Action. Adventure. Plots and schemes. Romance. Tragedy. Sword fights. Horseback chases. Gunfights. Enduring make friendship. My literal only complaint is how long I’ll have to wait for the second part.Whatever you do though, do watch it in the original French with subtitles. I rented it here on Amazon (then immediately pre-ordered the Blu-ray) and it defaulted to English. The dub is shamefully bad. Shamefully bad. So go into your settings when the movie starts and set it to French with subtitles.

Excelente película para quien quiera ver una adaptación de la obra en su idioma original.