Shameless Self Expression

Leaving his swordsman father (Joss Ackland) behind, a wannabe Musketeer named D’Artagnan (Michael York) ventures off to Paris where he inadvertently upsets three such Musketeers in Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), Athos (Oliver Reed), and Porthos (Frank Finlay). Meanwhile, the scheming Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) conspires with the treacherous Milady De Winter (Faye Dunaway) to disclose the affair between Queen Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) and the English Duke of Buckingham (Simon Ward) for the Cardinal’s selfish reasons. Christopher Lee plays Rochefort the Cardinal’s ‘Living Blade’, Jean-Pierre Cassel is the foppish King Louis, Raquel Welch plays D’Artagnan’s clumsy love interest Constance, with Spike Milligan playing Constance’s elderly father. Rounding out the cast we have Roy Kinnear as the comical servant Planchet, Michael Gothard as a puritan servant of The Duke, and Francis de Wolff has a walk-on as a ship captain.   Slapstick-action director Richard Lester ( “Help!” ,...

In a near future setting, ice-cold rich psychopath Neal McDonough (whose character is a doctor by trade!) and some kill-hungry associates (Lochlyn Munro, Corey Large, Megan Peta Hill, and Nels Lennarson among them) enjoy hunting humans and killing them for sport. Enter ex-cop, ex-con Bruce Willis, a man said to be unkillable (and whose dossier reads like a list of roles from Willis’ past films). Pretty soon Willis’ elusiveness has gotten the hunters pissed off and eventually bickering amongst themselves.   You see enough of these Bruce Willis cheapies and some of them start to seem not too bad in comparison to the rest. So it is with this uninspired 2021 re-tread of “Most Dangerous Game” . Directed by Edward Drake, who co-scripts with supporting actor Corey Large (they scripted Willis’ mediocre “Breach” together), it also happens to be a better version of “Most Dangerous Game” than “Turkey Shoot” at least. Low bar? Incredibly.   This one gets a lot of mileage out o...