Movie reviews: “The Musketeer”

Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers has been made into a movie of one sort or another (three times as a musical) 13 times since the first production in 1916, according to the Internet Movie Database, but critics are suggesting that the 13th attempt, The Musketeer, will probably fall on its own sword — or ought to. Quipped Joel Siegel on ABC’s Good Morning America: “You know why it’s called The Musketeer and not The Three Musketeers? Because the other two guys saw the movie and quit.” Other reactions: Megan Rosenfeld in the Washington Post: “Buckling one swash too many:’ Jonathan Foreman in The New York Post: “The swash buckles.” Mike Clark in USA Today: “Musketeer swash has come unbuckled.” Clark adds: “If this is Dumas, there’s a ‘b” in the middle and an extra ‘s’ at the end. Similarly, Jonathan Foreman writes in the New York Post: “The Musketeer is an example of lazy, dumb and couldn’t-care-less hack movie making.”