The Count of Monte Cristo
January 23, 2002 in theaters
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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"I am no longer Edmund Dantes. I am the Count of Monte Cristo."
DID YOU KNOW?
Guy Pearce based his portrayal of Fernand Mondego on a specific type of entitled aristocratic cruelty he observed in historical accounts of 19th-century French society.
THE VERDICT
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A thoroughly satisfying adventure film that trusts its audience to invest in a long game of patient revenge -- Jim Caviezel plays Edmond Dantes with genuine conviction through both the despair and the triumphant reinvention, and Guy Pearce makes a memorably cold and self-justifying villain. Kevin Reynolds keeps the 131-minute runtime moving without ever feeling rushed, and the film delivers on every implicit promise of the premise: the wronged man gets everything back, including the satisfaction of making the people who destroyed him understand exactly what they did.
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