The Count of Monte Cristo

Another remake of the famous Alexandre Dumas novel, with great production values. The storyline has a young, ambitious sailor making a success of his life. His best friend, idle and rich, is jealous of him, and has him arrested and imprisoned on false charges. While spending 13 years in jail, the sailor educates himself and plots his revenge. Upon his release, he works his way into the upper ends of French society, as the titular Count.

131 minutes.
No persons under 10 (Violence) .
Action, Drama, Thriller

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk
Director	Kevin Reynolds
Screenplay	Jay Wolpert, from the novel by Alexandre Dumas
Music	Ed Shearmur
Cinematography	Andrew Dunn, Tim Wooster
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in	2002
Produced by	Birnbaum/Barber, Count of Monte Cristo, Ltd., Spyglass Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures, World 2000 Entertainment, Ltd.

Official Site

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
The Moviesite Ian Douglas	12
Cape Argus Derek Wilson	15
The Star Tanya Farber	14
Die Burger Francois Smith	10
Tygerburger Mariana Malan	10
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	10
Total Movie Ceri Thomas	10
eye Weekly Adam Nayman	5
Box Office Annlee Ellingson	13
ReelViews James Berardinelli	10
Film Review Jason Caro	10
Empire Jo Berry	15
What the People say
Internet 2891 Netizens	15
Average .. 57%	11

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: I see it has mixed reviews from the overseas press... I was new to the story and found it quite watchable. The action sequences are a bit fast, almost as if the director is fluffing them. There are some holes or troublesome issues in the plot, but no worse than any thing else coming out of Hollywood. Presumably they are handled better in the book. Guy Pearce does give a somewhat cliched villian performance, but it works okay. The story has been filmed many times, I guess the revenge emotion strikes a deep chord with cinemagoers.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 57%

Visitor Comments