Sometimes, nothing satisfies like old-fashioned swashbuckling. And in this regard, On Guard delivers.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 24, 2003

Despite its postdated irrelevance and its dopey title, this Daniel Auteuil vehicle is ludicrous fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2003

An awkward and indigestible movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2003

It's a tale well told and nearly irresistible.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 24, 2002

A big, gorgeous, sprawling swashbuckler that delivers its diversions in grand, uncomplicated fashion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2002

The sword fighting is well done and Auteuil is a goofy pleasure.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2002

This is, not to put too fine a point on it, a swashbuckler, a costume drama. If you love that old story form, you will be in old-fogy heaven, as it is nearly a perfect example of a genre that died out years ago.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2002

A splendid entertainment, young in spirit but accomplished in all aspects with the fullness of spirit and sense of ease that comes only with experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2002

The film's frenetic action takes place across beautifully rendered landscapes, and the ever-lunging ambitiousness and ingenuity in its wordplay justifies the fencing term employed for the film's release in America.

| Nov 6, 2002

This far-fetched adventure tale might be old-fashioned, but it's also one of the best swashbucklers in movie history.

| Oct 18, 2002

Boasting the best sword-fighting sequences to hit the screen in many years, it is so enjoyably old-fashioned it even looks as if it were made in the '70s.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2002

It has a dashing and resourceful hero; a lisping, reptilian villain; big fights; big hair; lavish period scenery; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 17, 2002

The cast has a high time, but de Broca has little enthusiasm for such antique pulp.

Full Review | Oct 15, 2002