Review – The Three Musketeers

Dumas gets the Young Guns treatment in this early-90s adaptation starring Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Oliver Platt and Chris O’Donnell. As terrible as the leads are, the supporting cast is at least as awkward. In particular, Tim Curry (despite his great talent) is impossible to buy as the wicked, womanizing Cardinal Richelieu. Even the small details are awkward and embarrassing, especially Platt’s bizarre, spangled do-rags. Overall this is an attempt to bake a chocolate chiffon pie using a recipe for walnut brownies. The young-hunks-in-a-western formula wasn’t all that great to begin with, and it certainly doesn’t work with a swashbuckling period piece. See if desperate