The Three Musketeers: Part II - Milady

Of course I had to watch it with subtitles on so I can understand what was going on there's some slow parts but Ava Green is actually pretty good in this movie I wish the sword fighting could have been a little bit better seems like they're too close to see what's actually going on but all in all it was a good movie

Despite lacking in action compared to the first film it's still a very entertaining period thriller. The titular character is a bit of a muddle though- the film can't decide if she's evil or a victim of circumstance and the odd snippet of backstory isn't enough to make the audience care one way or the other.

Less interesting than the first part and it is slow. Almost no combats at all, except for the final one. The death of constance was lame rarher than sad.

Best two movies I have seen in a long time.

In the evening after I saw the two Musketeer films I read a number of the reviews, which all presented the films as swashbuckling, boys' own adventures. But I had a rather different take on the films, which are dark—literally. With few exceptions, most of the action take place in the gloom of evening, often shrouded in mist. And the films are hardly romances: the girl D'Artagnan falls in love with is hanged, while the long-lost wife of Athos tries to kill him, and then abducts their six-year old child. There are no happy endings for our heroes. Nor are they really heroes: they are more like lunatics. In the opening scenes, all three of the original musketeers challenge D'Artagnan to duels for the smallest of imagined slights, apparently happy to kill a young man who has not even joined the musketeers at that point. Instead, all four band together to kill numerous soldiers under the command of Cardinal Richelieu, soldiers sent to arrest them wholly reasonably for the offence of duelling—and soldiers who, it should be noted, are fighting for the same king and country. There is plenty of swashbuckling, but not the kind I was expecting to enjoy, for what I saw was senseless violence, behaviour that was deeply troubling morally. Don't get me wrong: I'm generally keen on seeing Bond or Eastwood blow away the baddies, but that was not what was happening here. I make these comments not as a criticism of the films, but rather as a corrective to the reviews I had read. I am not sure what the director, Martin Bourboulon's purposes in the films is, for if they are meant to be a critique of swashbuckling, swashbuckling is nonetheless a large part of their appeal. But at some level I think the films conveys a moral murkiness as deep as the gloom in which most of the action takes place. Take for instance the central character in the second film, Milady de Winter, played superbly by Eva Green. In places, the film invites us to view her as some kind of devil, preternaturally gifted in the arts of seduction and survival. And yet her own back-story more than explains, indeed excuses, her killing of her abusive first husband, and her attempt to kill Athos near the end of the second film—for it was Athos, her second husband, who handed her over to the state for the ‘crime' of killing her first husband. Athos, who must have known that she would be hanged, does so out of a misguided sense of moral duty, as deeply flawed as the sociopathic sense of honour that leads him to issue utterly needless challenges to duels. These are fine films, built on outstanding performances from the three main protagonists (D'Artagnan, Athos & Milady). But as to their purposes, these (like Keats's ‘Grecian Urn') would seem to ‘tease us out thought'.

Brought the book to life. Delightfully funny. Clever action movie.

A really good sequel!

Disapointing for all the great efforts in movie making cast and story are lost in a dark and gloomy environnement so sorry, as if those people only lived in the dark âges were is the Beauty of costumes and colours, are left in shades of grey

The film excels in the action part, the scenes are well done and there is always something happening, but this also ends up being one of the film's problems. There is a lack of explanation for the plot and something to give the story more weight. Location jumps are also a problem, as it seems like the characters can move anywhere and whenever they want in the blink of an eye. There is a lack of a better transition in this part. The plots in the final part of the film are quite silly, you can easily predict each one, making the film quite silly.

What a weak and uninteresting plot. What a waste of a budget.