An average movie

Pretty much every decade, they come up with a new version of this classic story and when I heard that Paul W.S. Anderson was behind it, I was even more skeptical. To beginning with, the intro was seriously tedious and I thought the whole thing would really bore me but, fortunately, it got better after that. Above all, Anderson managed to get a really massive cast (Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Til Schweiger, Orlando Bloom, Logan Lerman, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Juno Temple) and it pretty much redeemed the whole thing for me. You could argue that there was quite an overkill in the bad-guy department (Milady de Winter, the Duke of Buckingham, Rochefort, Richelieu) but the actors involved really had some fun with their characters, even though I wasn’t really convinced by Milla Jovovich. Still, I have to admit it, all these fancy action scenes with slow-motion and CGI were rather underwhelming after a while and, honestly, the makers really didn’t anything really interesting to this tale which has been told so many times already. To conclude, I think my rating might be really generous here but I guess this movie is still worth a look though, if only for the cast and above all if you are a fan of the genre.

6/10