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The Iliad

Homer, E.V. Rieu and Peter Jones

7.1 (11 Ratings) Rate It

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A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation....

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Bryan Karetnyk, Gaito Gazdanov and Julien Pacaud

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A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more...

The Little Demon

Ronald Wilks, Fyodor Sologub and Pamela Davidson

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A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Three Musketeers (2011) in Movies

Feb 11, 2018 (Updated Feb 11, 2018)

The Three Musketeers (2011)

2011 | Action, Romance

4.9

(9 Ratings)

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Dumb and Dumas

Paul W.S. Anderson, the man behind the Resident Evil and Alien Vs Predator franchises, shows us what real creativity looks like as he gives us his take on a piece of classic literature, adding all those crucial things that Alexandre Dumas inexplicably forgot to include in the original version of The Three Musketeers: aqualungs, flamethrowers, airship battles, Orlando Bloom in a pompadour hairstyle, and Milla Jovovich doing somersaults in a basque.

Pretty much wholly ghastly from start to finish, almost to the point where banning Anderson from reading books seems like a reasonable precaution, just to be on the safe side. About as thrilling as watching your laptop install an update, with all the comic charm of an outbreak of venereal disease. The special effects are technically competent but that really is the best you can say about it.