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The Man in the Iron Mask

1998

Randall Wallace

Leonardo DiCaprio, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich ...

6.1

50,557

Adventure. Action. Drama As King Louis XIV prepares to rule France, he proves to be a cruel ruler. When he becomes responsible for sending a soldier, Rauol, to his death so he can have his love, Christine, Raoul's retired musketeer father and two other retirees ban together to overthrow the king. Captain D'Artagnan does not agree with his king but is loyal to him and refuses to be apart of the musketeers' plan. However, they learn that Louis has a secret good ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An unusually sober and serious-minded telling of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"With a rewrite and a better focus, this could have been a film of 'Braveheart'' quality instead of basically just a costume swashbuckler (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	The Three Musketeers, a rusty trio of middle-aged retirees, have all but changed their motto from 'All for one and one for all' to 'I have fallen and I can't get up'"	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Heavy on swordplay and spectacle, it's so intent on reviving the costume epics of the past it doesn't realize it's trying to be too many things to too many people until it collapses under its own weight"	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Despite the film's extraordinary Musketeer power, [DiCaprio] rivets attention in practically every scene."	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"There is nothing worth getting steamed over or particularly excited about (...) [Wallace] provides just enough swashbuckling action to keep the audience from dying in its seat."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"My guess is there won’t be many repeat viewings (...) DiCaprio is too good an actor for this male-pinup crap"	NEG
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"Consistently entertaining though it may be, however, 'Man In The Iron Mask' is badly let down by dialogue bordering on the moronic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[A] clunky, overlong, intermittently diverting adaptation"	NEU

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