Marcio Cuzziol

This French version of the famous story should have been much more faithful to Alexandre Dumas' text... I'm hugely disappointed. Milady Winter could not be just a bad girl, that was too easy. She had to be Demon-possessed!!! I'm not kidding, she does sign a covenant with the Devil in this film!!! It happens in the woods just after Athos try to kill her... And the young boy D'Artagnan witnesses the whole mess... Years later D'Artagnan would be the only one who could beat her... Why the writers have invented it? Was it really necessary? Certainly the writers, or the producers, decided the original story was not good enough to attract audience. There are also some Matrix-like fighting scenes. This had already been done much better in Peter Hyams' The Musketeer (2001) which was not a serious film.

The rest of the film is not that bad. Good cast, good production values. But why they had to include the Devil in this???

Italian production of Jack London's well-known, often filmed tale. Gentleman is forced to work in a seal-hunt ship ruled by a tyrannical captain. Violence rules but soon he learns to interact with the captain, just to find a thinking (and ill) man. More violent than the other versions with an incoherent soundtrack from Guido and Maurizio De Angelis. But the story is strong and the film does offer some good moments, holding the interest along. Badman Chuck Connors does well in the title role although it was a too hard task: none could be better in Wolf Larsen's role than Edward G. Robinson who starred the 1941 Hollywoodian version, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Average Italian thriller. After 25 years a woman returns to Italy to attend her father's funeral. She doesn't believe when Police says he has committed suicide. She starts to investigate by herself and soon finds some evidences of murder. Why would someone want to kill her father? Well, he and some friends, who had been prisoners of the Nazis during the second war, did something bad exactly 25 years ago. How could she be so good in investigation? Well, she doesn't like to talk about her past... Mostly set in Venice and co-starred by Giancarlo Giannini which always help a lot. The problem is, although the film is well-made, the story is too predictable, offering no surprises. Anyway, it still worths a look. Title - "last target" - makes no much sense.