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The Three Musketeers (2023)
Dreadful.
I thought this might be good but gave up after twenty minutes. The script is poor and poorly delivered. It's not clear whether this is a directorial choice or whether the lead, Malachi Latchman, simply can't act. It's the most wooden performance I've ever seen in any role since a 1950s B-movie. The stilted delivery of the dialogue is just depressing.
Costumes and locations are good, which makes the rest of the production so much more disappointing.
Comparison to the 1974 Richard Lester production is perhaps unfair but when the bar was set so high fifty years ago, why settle for something so low as this?
Do yourself a favour, give this a miss and get 90 minutes of your life back.
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads: A Chip in the Sugar (2020)
Slightly disappointed
Martin Freeman gives a solid performance and maybe it's what the Director asked for but for me the pacing is too fast. Lacks the punch of the original performance by Bennett himself. Entertaining without quite hitting the mark.