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- 2002
- PG-13
- 2 h 11 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- 2 h 11 m
Summary Alexandre Dumas's classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. (Touchstone Pictures)
Directed By: Kevin Reynolds
Written By: Alexandre Dumas, Jay Wolpert
- 2002
- PG-13
- 2 h 11 m
- 2002
- PG-13
- 2 h 11 m
The Count of Monte Cristo
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8.6
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Summary Alexandre Dumas's classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. (Touchstone Pictures)
Directed By: Kevin Reynolds
Written By: Alexandre Dumas, Jay Wolpert
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
61
64% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
33% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
61
64% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
33% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Utterly thrilling and enthralling, a commercial film that paces itself wonderfully, never allowing the action or romance to outweigh its story and characters. For mainstream adventure fare, that's quite an accomplishment.
Sail to the box office, swashbucklers. Dumas is back in style.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 248 User Ratings
8.6
88% Positive
218 Ratings
218 Ratings
6% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
6% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 248 User Ratings
8.6
88% Positive
218 Ratings
218 Ratings
6% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
6% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
Three words: "My favorite movie" and I'm definitely not into those categories of movies. I usually just watch comedy because things like "Revenge", "Betrayal", and "Love" are usually characteristics of a drama and I HATE drama.
This movie is by far the most entertaining movie I've watched and I watch more TV than Al Bundy
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Performances by Jim Caviezel and Richard Harris make this a great adventure.
The best thing in The Count of Monte Cristo is Guy Pearce's snot-nosed hauteur. He gives this scoundrel some wounded edges, and frills as well.
The film's resolute indifference to fashion makes it, perhaps paradoxically, a refreshing piece of old-style entertainment, accompanied by a whooshing, trembling score by Edward Shearmur.
James Caviezel makes us care more about that innocent romantic, Edmond Dantes, than we may care to care about the rest of the picture, which entertains in fits and starts, with startling ruptures in tone.
This is the time of the year movie studios traditionally dump their mistakes into theaters -- and boy, did Disney make a whopper with The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a fantastic adaption of a classic slice of adventure literature. The performances are great and the directing is colorful. More importantly, the film has a handful of truly unforgettable scenes, chief among them: Guy Piece looking out over a peaceful horizon, deciding on his future... "You know I could never live in a world where you have everything and I have nothing." I get chills every time!
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An epic tale of adventure, betrayal, love and revenge. There really is something here for everyone. Jim Caviezel, one of the most underrated actors of the past decade, delivered a superb performance in this film. This is my favorite movie of all time, so pardon the perfect score.
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While the scriptwriters took some liberties with the Dumas classic (and keeping in mind that no novel can translate perfectly to film), this version does an excellent job of telling a story that honors the original while making it accessible to younger audiences. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and have re-watched it several times.
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Bah, "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a movie that displays a violent tale of revenge into a ridiculously cheesy one. However I'll give credit for the excellent cinematography.
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Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, this is the story of revenge Edmond Dantes, a man betrayed by his friends and imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Directed by Kevin Reynolds, has a screenplay adapted by Jay Wolpert and has Jim Caviezel in the title role.
This story is well known and is very good in film. Its an appealing story, with romance, good arguments for action and all that general public tends to like. Nevertheless, its not an action film, but a drama, focused on the destroyed life of a man and his thirst for revenge. The script is not brilliant, nor can we be tempted to compare it with the original book. But it does a competent job and transpose to the screen most of the major aspects of the novel, while adapting some points and bringing some new features that don't appear in the book, for dramatic purposes. In my opinion, the greatest sin of this script is the too much focus on Mondego, so that the revenge Dantés exerts on other three conspirators is hardly explained (one of Them ends up not even appear in the film).
The main actors are Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce, respectively in the role of protagonist and the main villain. Both are good investments: Pearce can be annoying with his arrogant attitude and Caviezel gives his character a certain hardness, without losing kindness and sense of justice. But this is not one of the best films of the two actors. It was shot at very attractive locations, from a visual point of view, and has good visual effects and costumes.
In short: it's a good movie, which easily appeals to everyone and fulfills its role to entertain and tell a story. However, is not brilliant or particularly remarkable.
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