The Musketeer

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The Musketeer

Directed by	Peter Hyams
Produced by	Moshe Diamant
Written by	Gene Quintano
Starring	Catherine Deneuve Mena Suvari Stephen Rea Justin Chambers
Music by	David Arnold
Cinematography	Peter Hyams Stefano Paradiso
Editing by	Terry Rawlings
Distributed by	Universal Pictures (U.S.) Miramax Films (U.K.) MDP Worldwide(other territories)
Release date(s)	September 7, 2001
Running time	104 minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Musketeer is a Peter Hyams film very loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic novel The Three Musketeers, starring Catherine Deneuve, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Nick Moran, Bill Treacher and Justin Chambers.

The film is notable for eschewing historical European swordfighting in its action sequences, for Hong Kong film-style martial arts choreography and wirework. This movie even has Tsui Hark's regular actor Xin-Xin Xiong as a stunt choreographer. [1]

The film enjoyed a commercial success in the United States. This film topped the US box office upon its release in September 2001, and went on grossing $27 million in US box office.[2] Since Universal Pictures and Miramax Films only paid $7.5 million to buy the North America and U.K. distribution rights of this film[3], this film was very profitable for those two studios.

[edit] Critics' Reaction

The film received extremely poor reviews, garnering only 10% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. [4] Many critics cited terrible acting, unrealistic action scenes, and confusing editing.

[edit] Notes

The 13th film adaptation of The Three Musketeers since 1916, the most recent before this one being the "Brat Pack" adaptation The Three Musketeers featuring Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland.