Eric Zivot

I rarely write reviews like this but what reviews I've read have made me so angry I have to say something. The professional critics hit this film with violence equal to a broadside from the War Ship. But just like the Duke of Buckingham, played with a satisfying dose of self-importance by Orlando Bloom, they see failure in the very thing audiences are responding to; the sheer fun of it all! If I wanted to experience the story exactly as Alexander Dumas wrote it...I'd read the book! Also, having read the book a couple of times I've always come away with a sense of adventure and heroic daring as I create my own images in my mind from Dumas' words. Have the critics forgotten that film is a visual medium? Adventure and heroic daring are deeply embedded in this film even as it takes wild license with the details of the original story. So what? As I've said, if you want the original then invest the time to read the book. The professional critics should be ashamed of the self-importance they have invested in their own views of how this story should be translated from one medium to another and for one generation to another.