Lots of action, little content

The film was supposed to play in France of the 17th century and build on old movies of Dumas' The Three Musketeers ". This fidelity is the director broadly true and not even trying to digress from the original version. However, the story of the film is just flat, mixed with a plenty of gunpowder, cannonballs, sword fights and heartache!

Some inconsistencies also dive in the film, so the matter of the wetsuit at the very beginning, this was not invented until the late 17th century, however, the story takes place at the beginning of the same century. The use of airships by the Duke of Buckingham, these aircraft were, unfortunately, not invented until the late 19th century and not in the Baroque period, especially when you consider that those fellow could never wear a warship. Even Cardinal Armand-Jean Richelieu is presented as an intriguer, which was unfortunately due to the original version Dumas, though he an influential politician and representative of France was in his time, when the monarchy was quite weak.

Even otherwise, the film does not shine with sound depth, as one would wish for happy, if you read the book it.

Unfortunately, the film impresses with substantive defects, like putting one as supposedly local guide, the Würzburg Residence as Versailles, the Bamberg City Hall as a shelter for the Musketeers, and a backyard of Bamberg Cathedral as Parisian street scene at that time, etc., sold. Since you can not really the sake of simplicity in the film as a product of building empathize on a novel of a great French writer.

So precisely this film fits into the genre of so-called comedies that Hollywood produces in abundance, and the inclined viewers from the United States thinks great it was but was in France, although this film for Francophile has nothing left, except maybe the computer-generated scenes Notre Dame in Paris.