Very disappointing...

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

You never think a movie could be this bad, but it is. The movie starts out with a sexy bra and pantie scene, but the female talent is pale, out of shape and less than attractive. The camera work is beyond shaky and the video editing looks like it was done with Windows Movie Maker, Millennium Edition.The premise is good and with a bigger budget, better actors and more realist special effects, this could have been a cult classic, but when you use a credit card machine as a badge reader, you loose the audience. I didn't know that guy was trying to secure a room, I thought he was paying for a pizza.Thought this would be good for a laugh, but it's just a bad example about why some scripts should never be written and some movies should never be green lit. Unless you know someone in this movie or participated in the production, I say save your time and energy.

This film by low-budget direct-to-DVD house The Asylum is a mixed bag of silly, comic book action, uneven visual effects and even more uneven acting. The end result is ultimately a fun, if not altogether satisfying, time waster.It's not a straight mockbuster of any "Three Musketeers" movie in Asylum's usual "Transmorphers" kind of way. Except for the title and some character names from the Dumas novel, the movie better resembles a "Charlie's Angels" film, as its plot centers around a team of action heroes attempting to stop a conspiracy to incite World War III.The team code-named "Musketeers" consists of, predictably, spies whose own code names are Athos, Porthos and Aramis. They're joined later by an exotic-looking female spy named D'Artagnan who claims to be a direct descendant of the real one. Their enemy: A guy code-named "The Cardinal" (natch) who for reasons unclear wants to start a global war by killing the president.The actors in the Musketeer roles are not too bad and actually appear to be having some fun, which is rare for The Asylum. Arguably the two sorest points in most Asylum productions is that their preposterous, low-budget movies are presented dead seriously, and that their has-been actors like Greg Evigan seem mortified to be appearing in them.Not so here, where martial artist XIN is so charismatic as Athos you'll hope to see him in a better kung fu movie, lovely Michele Boyd as Aramis is reminiscent of Meg Ryan circa "Innerspace," Keith Allan channels Jeff Goldblum as brainy Porthos who spouts '80s pop culture references like "The light is green, the trap is clean," and Heather Hemmens (of the CW's "Hellcats") actually makes you believe a Costa Rican hottie could be the direct descendant of a 17th Century French guard.But again, as with most Asylum movies, other cast members are so bad you'll wonder who on the production team they must be related to/have paid off/had sexual relations with to land their roles. Alan Rachins is so flat-out awful as the Cardinal he comes off as someone's old college acting teacher given the part as a favor. He pulls down every scene he's in so badly the movie actually appears to freeze-frame every time he comes on screen. Where's Barry Bostwick when you need him? Digital effects by Tiny Juggernaut are typically bargain basement, but not so much that they ruin the show. This is, after all, comic book melodrama, so it's OK by me if the jet planes and rockets look a little cartoony.It's mindless fun that's worth a look on Netflix or maybe picked up used for a couple of bucks. Paying any more for it would be a bigger crime than World War III.

When the movie started I thought it might be worth a look. But 10 minutes into it I realized this was a new new level of bad theater. The premise was hokey and the director was in love with a style of cinematographic where the shot pops to a zoom in. It was constant and annoying.The moment I know this was the worst movie I seen this year was when they turned on the oven of an electric stove to blow up a house. This was the typical attention to detail the cast and director gave this movie. I saw no less than 6 sequences that were ripped off from other movies. And terribly reproduced as well. Save your money and the hour and a half of your lives and skip seeing this film, unless you want to see how not to film and action movie.

Starring: Alan Rachins, David Chokachi and Kane Hodder.Directed by: Cole McKay Pretty amazing effort to entertain with a familiar name in action-adventure films.The action stuff is truly breathtaking and moves really fast to plot points that make sense and add to excitement of effort.The character names you are used to are here and the evil Cardinal is represented by LA LAW 's Alan Rachins.The evilness continues with David Chokachi from BAYWATCH fame and he shows many skills that can still be added to his acting efforts.The cameos reach a pinnacle with F13 JASON,Kane Hodder gives a fleeting character some horrible glee in his tasks.This should be a big hit in rentals and sales, It has everything for the fan and even occasional viewer of Redbox or Netflix fodder.