All for one, one for all, but, mostly, one to skip.

Have we retained nothing of the lessons of Hudson Hawk? Like that early Nineties comical disaster, The Three Musketeers hinges on the secret machinations of Leonardo da Vinci.

Even the most liberal viewer is likely to echo Milady's thoughts of D'Artagnan: "You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."

Staged like a video-game adaptation, complete with a fondness for those slo-mo Matrix-style action sequences that wore out their welcome around the time Kelly Clarkson was winning the first American Idol championship.