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The Alexandre Dumas-inspired swashbuckler The Man in the Iron Mask is thoroughly second-rate--which is to say that it waddles when it ought to whiz, clanks when it strives for cornball poetry, and transforms its august stars into something akin to a manic dinner-theater troupe.