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IMDb > The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
The Count of Monte Cristo is such an under-rated gem.
Monte Cristo boasts the talent of both Guy Pearce and Jim Caviezal as former friends who have turned against each other in the epic-set Napoleanic French era.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo Movie Review at Hollywood Video
At the same time, neither Dantes nor the audience is allowed to forget the horrors he suffered as Jacopo finds the count asleep on the cold marble floor — unable to bear the softness of a bed after the years spent sleeping on hard stones in prison.
So Edmond escapes, finds the treasure, and resurrects himself as the Count of Monte Cristo, well-read and filled, after 13 years in prison, with a lust for revenge so metallic and deep that his entire new life is centered on exacting this vengeance.
The first, a crash-course intro to the work of Monte Cristo scribe Alexander Dumas basically paints the prolific author as something of a hack, who was in the writing biz as much for the money and fame as for the love of the written word.
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  Review: Count of Monte Cristo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
One visual aspect of the movie which impacts consciously on the viewer's mind only upon the "birth" of the persona of the Count, and which does stand out, positively so, is the costuming by Tom Rand.
Interestingly, though, while it is clearly a religious movie, the extent of its religious message is merely the acknowledgement of God as ultimate wisdom and mercy in the affairs of mankind.
Nothing of the sort transpires in the movie, so Dantes' late change of opinion rings a lot like the sentiments of those who use government programs to achieve great success in their life, and then rail against government programs as promoting dependency and sloth and insist that people pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monte Cristo is aware of Heloise's intentions, and, in a seemingly innocent fashion, provides her with a toxin capable of curing people with one drop, but killing people with an overdose.
This eccentric man, in his kindness, is almost the opposite of the Count of Monte Cristo and accordingly the two are supposed to be enemies.
In the movie Rocky, Apollo Creed's nickname, The Count of Monte Fisto, is a pun of the novel's name.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo movie review | MoovGoog Movie Blog
The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a well thought out revenge by a character who lost everything through betrayal and misfortune.
In the closing scene of the movie Dantes is with his family and pirate friend on the Chateau d'If where all his luck and hope changed from as bad as possible to an extreme amount of hope, all due to his old prison friend The Priest.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a great movie for anyone willing to sit down and watch a movie for two hours more for the twists and turns that this movies presents.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
As the Count of Monte Cristo and with the wealth of the treasure Dantés destroys his enemies and shows the wrong side of the bourgeois world.
Explain why The Count of Monte Crusto is a disguise and justice novel by choosing three of the characteristics and thoroughly explaining each.
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 Count of Monte Cristo, The: Movie-Source.com Count of Monte Cristo, The Movie, Count of Monte Cristo, The Preview, ...
No, this version of The Count of Monte Cristo is pure and true enough to the times that it is not blatantly obvious that it is trying to sell a remake to the masses.
The first half of the movie is noticeably better than the second half, but that's because the first half is so much different and more adventurous, as it deals with Dantes attempting to escape from prison.
The movie tries to tackle as much as possible, but some of Dantes' long-planned revenge schemes come so quickly that you can't help but feel that the story is being rushed along at a faster pace than it was supposed to be.
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 James Caviezel: The Count of Monte Cristo - Movie
The Count cannot and should not forgive her for this, and so he finds happiness with another woman, one who has always been faithful to him.
My girlfriend kept asking me during the film if "that happened in the book?" At the end of the movie I told her that basically everything in the movie was not how it occurred in the book.
She enjoyed the movie until the end when it was like a "cheesy 80's montage".
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 The Count of Monte Cristo - Movie Reviews, Photos & Videos, Layouts & Wallpapers, Fan Club - Flixster
I really liked this movie because of the lesson that Edmund was that revenge cannot solve all your problems and can make you feel no more better than before.
A great remake of Alexander Dumars' legendary tale of Edmond Dantes' escape from prison, his journey to become the Count of Monte Cristo and his eventual vengeance on the man who robbed him of everything...
The beauty of this movie is that their is a very deep and powerful message.
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 Flipside Movie Emporium: The Count of Monte Cristo Movie Review
His earnest characters and straight-faced melodrama seem as far from the 21st century as a musketeer's dueling sword.
For that reason, books like The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers continue to endure while other tales fall by the wayside.
He recreates himself as the mysterious "Count of Monte Cristo," and infiltrates Paris society in order to get close to those who wronged him.
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 2002 The Count of Monte Cristo - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
Last year, that movie was the Julia Stiles teen romance "Save the Last Dance," which opened amidst of flurry of Oscar contenders and still achieved box office success to the tune of over $91 million.
This year, that film just may be "The Count of Monte Cristo." Talk about a pleasant surprise, the latest adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic story of love, betrayal, and revenge has everything it needs to fit the bill as an old-fashioned, good-time Saturday matinee.
Thanks to picturesque scenery, top-notch action, strong performances, and even a dash of humor, "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a swashbuckling adventure that easily qualifies as the first great movie of the new year.
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 Count of Monte Cristo Movie Review
The Count of Monte Cristo is one such movie that has proven to be quite baffling to me since seeing it a week ago.
The Count of Monte Cristo is set at a time when Napoleon has been exiled and greedy, small men see their chance to rise to power.
The Count of Monte Cristo is rated PG-13 for adventure violence, swordplay, scenes where Edmond is whipped and brutalized in prison, and some mild sensuality.
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 Movie Review - The Count of Monte Cristo - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider
"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a dazzling, old-fashioned adventure story that brings the Alexandre Dumas novel roaringly to life.
"Monte Cristo" is a grand story, and one deserving of a good Hollywood treatment.
Even aside from that, the movie descends into formulaic silliness: Apparently, if your appearance changes in no way other than growing a goatee, no one will recognize you.
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 Count of Monte Cristo DVD
Alexandre Dumas' THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO follows the adventures of Edmond Dantès (Gérard Depardieu), a 19th-century French version of James Bond or Batman, a rich, ruthless, and suave purveyor of homemade justice.
The movie was filmed all over Europe, has a cast of thousands where even the extras are big names, and, with an original running time of more than six hours, doesn't leave out any detail from the celebrated novel.
At the age of 74, and watching movies for over 65 years,and having seen all the versions ot The Count of Monte Crisco, this one gets the top rating.
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 AllMegaStar.com: James Caviezel as Edmond Dantes in Touchstone's The Count of Monte Cristo - 2002
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is Alexandre Dumas' classic story of an innocent man wrongly but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him.
Haunted by the baffling course his life has taken, over time everything he ever believed about right and wrong is abandoned and replaced by all-consuming thoughts of vengeance against those who betrayed him.
James Caviezel as Edmond Dantes in Touchstone's The Count of Monte Cristo - 2002
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 THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie review (with clip, photo)
The Count of Monte Cristo is set in the post-Napoleonic period in France.
Sixteen long years later, Dantes escapes, finds the treasure, assumes the false identity of the count of Monte Cristo and begins his juicy revenge against Fernand.
Among the actors, Caviezel impressively conveys Dantes' increasing maturity and carries himself well in the Count's elegant clothing and as a swordsman after his escape.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo - Malta Movie Map
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Director: Kevin Reynolds.
Built in 1618, the tower was used in The Count of Monte Cristo as the exterior of the infamous Château d’If, the prison where Dantès is kept for 13 years and where he is taught swordplay by Abbé Faria (Richard Harris).
In one of these the Monte Cristo crew filmed the treasure trove that Dantès’ plunders in order to become the fabulously wealthy count.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
All in all, The Count of Monte Cristo is okay, but it is surely no classic, like the novel upon which it is based.
movie movie, which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance.
If The Count of Monte Cristo doesn't transform Caviezel into a movie star, then the game is even more rigged than it was two centuries ago.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) movie and trailer.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) movie and trailer.
He cherishes his friendship with the son of a count, Mondego (Guy Pearce), and is deeply in love with his fiancée, Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk).
Battles with pirates lead to hunts for sunken ocean treasure, and soon Dantes is living in Marseille as the transformed, newly rich, self-proclaimed Count of Monte Cristo.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
This version of The Count of Monte Cristo has two good actors going for it and that's about it This critic protests when 18th century films use modern day dialogue as toss-away expressions.
Revenge may be sweet as one eats on it for years, but in the end, it can be a bitter fruit.
The deepest flaw of this movie is characterized by the studio representative collecting comments after the private film critics screening.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo Movie Review
Dantes fulfills the escape plans, finds the gold and begins, in earnest, to formulate his plans of revenge against Mondego and the rest as the extraordinarily wealthy Count of Monte Cristo.
For such a grand historical drama "The Count of Monte Cristo" has a stinginess about it that keeps the story and the action surrounding it from opening up.
While watching Reynolds's "The Count the Monte Cristo" I could not get the 1974 version, starring Richard Chamberlain in the title role, out of my head, making me want to see that interesting telling of the tale again.
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 COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO MOVIE TIE IN ABRIDGED EDITION - Alexandre Dumas pere - Penguin Books
The Count of Monte-Cristo was inspired by an anecdote from the Parisian police archives, a pearl of a story, Dumas called it, 'A rough, shapeless pearl, of no value, waiting for its jeweller'.
Edmond Dantè's betrayal, his incarceration in the fortress-prison of If, his search for Abbé Faria's hidden treasure, and his reappearance, now fabulously rich, as the brooding, Byronic and vengeful Count of Monte-Cristo - these are the bare outlines of a book which Thackeray, for one, found impossible to put down.
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1844-46) is one of the great popular novels of all time, and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction.
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 talkback the count of monte cristo movie review
The movie is good and you make it look like a worthless piece of garbage.
The Count of Monte Christo is absolutely one of the best films that I have ever seen.
I appreciate Monte Christo is so tolarent,and if I were him,I mustn's parden the wirst one.Maybe he wants to find the peace of mind and to do so can make him more happier.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo review
Returning to France under the name of the lavish Count Monte Cristo, he uses his fortune to get back at those who sent him to jail and meets again with his former fiancee Mercedès (Dagmara Dominczyk), now married to Mondego.
It is certainly regrettable that the screenwriter didn't keep the original bittersweet finale, but this is after all an old style and charming swashbuckling film and at least, contrary to the supposedly faithful French adaptation with Gerard Depardieu, it does not sink into unexpected ridicule.
Unlike Hollywood's latest attempts to the genre, this Count of Monte Cristo doesn't deserve to be sent to the Chateau d'If.
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 Count of monte - The Valve - A Literary Organ | The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds) with James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk.
Wiley::CliffsNotes on Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
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 Donner's Movie Reviews: The Count of Monte Cristo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
When Count Mondego is talking with Monsieur de Villefort in his office with the window open, you can just make out cars parked on the other side of the harbor.
The movie is simple, it isn't updated with contemporary values and themes, and it doesn't star a big name who is completely wrong for the part.
The Count of Monte Cristo is, of course, about a man climbing up the French social ladder.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo Movie Review
For example, in a movie of Batman it is the origin and the cast of the character that people know and has captured their imaginations, not the story that follows.
The comparison to Batman is not a light one since essentially THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is a superhero story of its day.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is not a perfect swashbuckler, by any means, but as one that uses plot and drama rather than wirework or CGI is a sign that adventure films may be going back in the right direction.
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 The Count of Monte Cristo - Movie Rental Review
Omitted from the movie are the book's depiction of character's use of opium and a concubine.
Both are in "The Count of Monte Cristo" in abundance, and once again, in this 15th filmed version of the Alexandre Dumas novel, this most resilient of stories has been made into another thoroughly enjoyable movie.
Parents should know that the movie features PG-13-style peril and swordfights and characters are wounded and killed.
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 Amazon.com: The Count of Monte Cristo: DVD: James Caviezel,Guy Pearce,Richard Harris,James Frain,Dagmara ...
After attending the release of "The Count of Monte Cristo," a friend made the remark that he believed the movie could benefit from additional fight sequences.
In this time of fire and explosion oriented blockbuster movies it is indeed refreshing to find a remake of a classic novel of the quality of The Count of Monte Cristo currently available.
The movie is beautifully paced, the long prison scenes allow Caviezel and Harris to create tremendous rapport, and the age old theme of REVENGE has rarely been played out so well.
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