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The Four Musketeers

1974

Richard Lester

Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Michael York, Richard Chamberlain ...

5.8

1,899

Adventure D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy, and she has an unfortunate history with Athos as well. Milady goes to England to ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I liked the first film better than the second, but in any event, half of this pair is enough. It's too much of the same material (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		The New York Times	"[It] is the concluding and (to my way of thinking) better half of the two part film (...) Everything about the film — including the cast — is the same only lighter, funnier, less burdened by exposition"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"[The] sequel isn't quite as successful, in part because it comes close to abandoning the levity in trying to point out the more serious undertones that have run through both"
		David Pirie Time Out	"[It] is a reasonably beguiling, if noticeably padded coda, with the best bits containing in abundance that quality of penetrating period wit which made its predecessor such a delight"

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