Director Stephen Herek
Starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt & Chris O’Donnell
Rating PG
Score 5.5/6

France, 1625: Young d’Artagnan heads to Paris to join the Musketeers but the evil cardinal has disbanded them – save 3. He meets the 3, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and joins them on their quest to save the king and country.

Okay, there have been film adaptions of The Three Musketeers dating back over a hundred years, so before we get to far into things this adaption was released by Disney in 1993. I would also like to note that this adaption is in my top Three Musketeers screen adaptions the others being the 2011 movie directed by directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and of course the BBC adaption a series that ran from 2014 to 2016.

Slight spoilers for those of you who might not have seen this adaption it should be noted that when she jumped off a cliff Rebecca De Mornay’s Countess D’Winter is the first character (according to The Three Musketeers’ IMDB page) in a movie released under the Walt Disney banner to commit suicide.

With all this extra time on our hands that we have had, I hope that you have been watching movies that make you smile, this movie makes me smile and I really should have taken a look at this earlier. Now considering this is a Disney movie the action sequences might not be as grand as of the other adaptions that I have mentioned in this review especially early in the movie, but don’t worry true the swashbuckling genre The Three Musketeers has a grand climax.
What I love is the movie’s sense of humour, particularly the carriage chase scene and Porthos’ wine suggestion for a chase . I also enjoyed Kiefer Sutherland’s portrayal of Athos, Oliver Platt as Porthos and Michael Wincott’s gravelly voice as Rochefort is very menacing. Then there is the legendary Tim Curry as the Cardinal a performance I hold in the same regard as Alan Rickman’s portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1991 movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.