For the noble cause, the king's famous musketeers battle the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu.

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To provoke a war between France and England, Cardinal Richelieu uses his spy Milady de Winter (a kind of 17th century version of Lara Croft) to make the young King Louis XIII believe his wife, Anne of Austria, is cheating on him with the influential Duke of Buckingham. To save the honor of their queen, the three musketeers and the young d’Artagnan set out to find the necklace she is supposed to have given the duke, which in reality was stolen by Milady...

The reason the movie adaptations of the novel by Alexandre Dumas (1848) are always so successful is because of the courage and character shown by the young d'Artagnan, as opposed to the rather indifferent three musketeers. This remake, an English/French/German/American production that was shot mainly in Bavière, has a multimillion-euro budget but doesn't make the cut: thanks to a profusion of special effects, machine gun-cannons and an inventive boat/hot air balloon that would be better placed in an adaptation of a book by Jules Verne...