Everyone knows the story of the Three Musketeers, which has been done to death a hundred times over across various forms of media, so 1998’s The Man in the Iron Mask opted to cast its eye over Alexandre Dumas’ wider collection of associated stories in order to try and give the story as fresh a coat of paint as it was possible to muster.
It certainly worked out from a box office perspective, with the $35 million historical adventure rustling up $183 million in ticket sales, but critics were left less than enthused. It’s undeniably nice to look at from a visual and aesthetic perspective, but it’s all very workmanlike and efficient in nature, when the very least to be expected was surely sweeping spectacle and stirring set pieces.
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