Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers Trailer

Posted by Sean on March 25th, 2011   Filed under: Action, Drama, Trailers

Looking forward to a new swashbuckling action-adventure film that isn’t a Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Me too. Unfortunately, this one is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, so I don’t have particularly high hopes for it. Yes, we’ve seen The Three Musketeers story on screen a million times before, but this is the first time it has been done in 3-D. While that might sound intriguing, what it actually translates to is a lot of fake-looking CG swords flying out of the screen and into your face.

I do like the cast for the most part. The Musketeers themselves are played by Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans and Matthew Macfadyen, with Logan Lerman playing young D’Artagnan. Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom and Milla Jovovich also have supporting roles. What I’m not so thrilled about is seeing the same tired bullet time action sequences transplanted from the Resident Evil series to a period setting instead. What do you think, is this headed for disaster or could it actually be good? The Three Musketeers hits theatres on October 14th; check out the first trailer in HD over at Apple.com or watch an embedded version after the jump.

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Comments (9)

  1. FYI Hollywood: Saying that your movie was “shot in 3D” is no longer a selling point. I’m not even sure it ever was.

    Posted by rjdelight on March 25th, 2011

  2. could be fun but I feel like I’ve seen it all before

    Posted by Niklas on March 25th, 2011

  3. The 3D Musketeers?

    Posted by Juan Costrada on March 25th, 2011

  4. sarcastic comment loading… ???????????? 95%

    Posted by MGL on March 26th, 2011

  5. Horrendous….

    Posted by Chris on March 26th, 2011

  6. Because of Avatar, they think saying “Shot in 3D” is the selling point. It just makes me roll my eyes even harder. Their starting to hurt a bit with all these new trailers.

    Posted by Dave on March 26th, 2011

  7. Big dissapointment. I was expecting more than just a Resident Evil put into a period setting. Yuck.

    Posted by Kasper on March 26th, 2011

  8. Gross. A poor attempt at Steampunk in a time period where it has no relevance. Awesome. You win again, unoriginality!

    Posted by Marcus Mallard on March 28th, 2011

  9. he’s using the same gimmicks he used in Afterlife!!! The sliding move Ali Larter does Milla is doing the same thing, and in SLOW_MOTION!

    Posted by Steve Kasan on March 29th, 2011

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