If you are about to whip out your wallet to go see the newest rendition of ‘The Three Musketeers’ with the hope that it will be an amazing remake of the classic tale, I suggest you stick to the classic .

This remake has taken the classic Three Musketeers and  ‘modernized’ it using  humor it’s best to roll your eyes at and walk away. This would-be action movie  had moments where I was glad I came, but a few seconds later I was determining whether I would rather go home and sleep or be lazy and deal with the movie seat.

In the movie the young and cocky D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with the three legendary Musketeers (Matther MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in the recreation of Alexandre Dumas’s story. They must stop the evil  Richlieu (Christoph Waltz), face the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and backstabbing double agent Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich) for the sake of France and its king, King Louis XII (Freddie Fox).

The purpose of the remaking of this movie seemed to be  money–not a new perspective on the original. It slows down at unimportant scenes and speeds up the moments you want to last forever. The one redeeming point of the film was the progression of the characters. They did not care for anything with meaning but in the end saw what they were truly fighting for, whether literal fighting or fighting a battle within themselves.

I would not recommend you spend your money and Friday night on this movie.  I give it a generous one star out of five. Wait until it’s out on rental and there isn’t a better movie you could watch instead. You’ll be glad with your choice.

This movie is rated PG-13.