Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Myriam Nys The only thing that keeps me from awarding ten stars, is the movie's reliance (and, in my humble opinion, over-reliance) on slapstick comedy and farce. Apart from this minor quibble, it needs to be said that this an outstanding movie : vivid, sensual, funny, inventive and exciting. This is Entertainment with a capital E.Almost everything you care to think of is superb : the musical score, the casting, the performances, the locations, the props, the stunts. Certain scenes or images are so beautiful, from an artistic viewpoint, that you will remember them for years, such as the white and silver masked ball thrown by the French king or the "chapel" built by Buckingham for his loved one. The costumes deserve special praise : Michael York has never looked so dashing and gallant, while Faye Dunaway has never looked so angelically, ethereally beautiful.The follow-up movie continues strong, but beware : the darkness in Dumas' work, which is only hinted at for now, will become more pronounced.

FloodClearwater Michael York's performance as country-boy-gone-to-the-city D'Artagnan in this film is such a touchstone that it allowed him to spend most of his adulthood making only guest appearances in middling films and television shows while remaining a major international star. There have been other 'Musketeers' movies and other 'swashbuckler' films, but this 1973 film sits smack in the middle of the convergence of these two sub- (and sub-sub-) genres as the reigning best of both. Charlton Heston chews scenery as Cardinal Richlieu, the main villain. Christopher Lee is marvelous as his pirate-horseman henchman Roquefort. Raquel Welch and Faye Dunaway are set against each other as the epitomes of female virtue and female enmity, respectively, and both are, it so happens, ravishingly beautiful and beautifully costumed in the production. The soul and the greatest thrum of gravity are supplied by Oliver Reed as the Musketeer "Athos." Reed, a notoriously hard-living, wild-tempered actor, roils seas of pathos and also brotherly bonhomie within his character in this film, and his projected regrets over the impossibility of perfect love and also the encroachment of a soulless government in the person of the Cardinal and his crimson gendarmes add emotional heft. This is a brilliantly and beautifully directed, edited, and shot film that yet does not take itself too seriously. The ethos of a Musketeer, as Dumas hagiographized them, is to find time for both fighting and frolic, and this movie strikes a proper balance in finding both.

Lee Eisenberg First, I should admit that I've never read Alexandre Dumas's novel. But if Richard Lester's movie version of "The Three Musketeers" is any indication, then it must be a fun read. Or maybe Lester simply decided to add a lot of humor. But either way, there's not a dull moment in this version of the tale.Playing the title characters are Oliver Reed as Athos, Frank Finlay as Porthos and Richard Chamberlain as Aramis, with Michael York as D'Artagnan trying to become a musketeer. At first, D'Artagnan is sort of a hapless klutz, but he wastes no effort in helping the trio in their efforts to stop Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) from gaining more power. Along the way, D'Artagnan falls for Constance Bonancieux (Raquel Welch), while the slimy Count Rochefort (Christopher Lee) and the enigmatic Lady De Winter (Faye Dunaway) abet Richelieu. It's a great time from beginning to end! Also starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simon Ward, Georges Wilson, Spike Milligan and Roy Kinnear (Algernon in "Help!").I wonder how this movie would have come out had it starred the Beatles, as Lester originally planned.

Framescourer An opulent farce constructed with a long roster of super Hollywood heavyweights. Filmed on the loveliest of locations the character of the film, peculiarly, comes from it being almost entirely overdubbed. This gives it a surreal feeling, with inserted jokes, in cultured English asides.This doesn't detract from the performances. Raquel Welch and Faye Dunaway are both lovely, the former scatty, the latter catty. Michael Yorke is the green adventure-seeker, the d'Artangnan torn between the two. Richard Chamberlain and Frank Finlay are wonderful amigos but cannot compete with the blasting, hell-for-leather presence of Oliver Reed, so charm their way through their roles. Charlton Heston and Christopher Lee are united as elegant baddies, and Roy Kinnear makes something more than toilet humour of the peasant end of the fun.And then there's the music... ah, the music. Michel Legrand's score might not be the greatest score in cinema but it just happens to be my favourite. 8/10