The Man in the Iron Mask

2.80
    The Man in the Iron Mask
    1998

    Synopsis

    Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

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    Cast

    • Leonardo DiCaprioKing Louis XIV / Philippe
    • Gabriel ByrneD'Artagnan
    • Jeremy IronsAramis
    • John MalkovichAthos
    • Gérard DepardieuPorthos
    • Anne ParillaudQueen Mother Anne
    • Judith GodrècheChristine
    • Edward AttertonLt. Andre
    • Peter SarsgaardRaoul
    • Hugh LaurieKing's Advisor

    Recommendations

    • 70

      The A.V. Club

      A mish-mash of accents (buffoonish Depardieu's French, somber Irons' British, and DiCaprio and Malkovich carrying the same voices they use for every project) are vaguely unsettling, and there seems to be too little swashbuckling for characters who are synonymous with the term.
    • 70

      Variety

      An unusually sober and serious-minded telling of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale, this handsome costumer is routinely made and comes up rather short in boisterous excitement.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      Wallace, unfortunately, writes lazy, anachronistic dialogue, and the picture is abysmally shot (by Peter Suschitzky), with a prosaic, low-budget look that never allows you to experience the enraptured majesty of a fairy-tale historical setting.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      Beyond its persistent coarseness, Wallace's story often trades yesterday's inspiration (Dumas) for today's (Simpson-Bruckheimer).
    • 50

      Slate

      Thoroughly second-rate -- which is to say that it waddles when it ought to whiz, clanks when it strives for cornball poetry, and transforms its august stars into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe.
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      The only other adaptations I've seen of the Alexandre Dumas novel (which I haven't read) are the Classics Illustrated comic book and the 1939 James Whale potboiler, both of which I prefer to this vulgar and overwrought 1998 free-for-all, which makes you wait interminably for the story's central narrative premise.
    • 50

      L.A. Weekly

      Going down with the Titanic was a picnic compared to what Leonardo DiCaprio has to weather (an Alice in Wonderland hairdo, for starters) as Louis XIV in this unwittingly nutso adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1850 novel.
    • 50

      Washington Post

      There is nothing worth getting steamed over or particularly excited about.

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