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NUMBERS
Box Office: $54,111,443
VHS Rentals: $3,640,000
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CONSENSUS
Entertaining tale of revenge reminiscent of those swashbuckling movies made in the 1940s.
CAST & CREW
Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
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SYNOPSIS
In this highly entertaining, beautifully photographed rekindling of the classic French novel by Alexandre Dumas, director Kevin Reynolds choreographs a fantastic adventure replete with breathtaking scenery, fiery swashbuckling battles, lavish costumes, and, above all else, sweet revenge. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, adventure violence/swordplay and some sensuality
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 25, 2002
Video: Sep 10, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Buena Vista Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Classic, Prison, Revenge
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Count of Monte Cristo Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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NEWS ARTICLES
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 "It's another retelling of Alexandre Dumas' classic. Why? Who knows, but it works under the direction of Kevin Reynolds."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"A meatier deeper beginning and/or ending would have easily tipped this film into the "A" range, as is, it's a very very strong "B+." I love the robust middle of this picture."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"As a revenge thriller, the movie is serviceable, but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure of the better film versions."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Its swashes are effectively buckled in all the right places."
-- Bob Aulert, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"[Reynolds] takes a classic story, casts attractive and talented actors and uses a magnificent landscape to create a feature film that is wickedly fun to watch."
-- Rick Bentley, FRESNO BEE
"what really makes it special is that it pulls us into its world, gives us a hero whose suffering and triumphs we can share, surrounds him with interesting characters and sends us out of the theater feeling we've shared a great adventure."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
 "Just like the deli sandwich: lots of ham, lots of cheese, with a sickly sweet coating to disguise its excrescence until just after (or during) consumption of its second half."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"The best revenge may just be living well because this film, unlike other Dumas adaptations, is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"This swashbuckler,
in which buckles are swashed too perfunctorily, is a middling entertainment."
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...lacks the punch and verve needed to make this genre soar."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"It trusts the story it sets out to tell."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"What the movie lacks in action it more than makes up for in drama, suspense, revenge, and romance."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"Plum and peachy entertainment."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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"Ofrece una buena oportunidad de cultura (aunque sea condensada) que bien vale la pena aprovechar."
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"(Rises) above its oh-so-Hollywood rejiggering and its conventional direction to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"All in all, The Count of Monte Cristo is okay, but it is surely no classic, like the novel upon which it is based."
-- Jim Chastain, NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
"You know you're in for a good ol' popcorn-munching time when the movie's tagline is a bad pun on the title of a piece of fine literature."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"This feature is about as necessary as a hole in the head"
-- Jason Clark, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"The modern remake of Dumas’s story is long on narrative and (too) short on action."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Literary purists may not be pleased, but as far as mainstream matinee-style entertainment goes, it does a bang-up job of pleasing the crowds."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"Ahhhh ... revenge is sweet!"
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"Caviezel embodies the transformation of his character completely."
-- Annlee Ellingson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A swashbuckling tale of love, betrayal, revenge and above all, faith."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
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FRESH 68%
Avg. Rating: 6.4/10 |
"It's a Count for our times."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent Dumas botch-jobs, The Man in the Iron Mask and The Musketeer."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"This is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the Saturday matinee, and it still is."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Fine escapism (sometimes literally)."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"There's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy, and The Count of Monte Cristo ... never quite settles on either side."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"This new movie version of the Alexandre Dumas classic is the stuff of high romance, brought off with considerable wit."
-- Bob Graham, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"It's a fine, old-fashioned-movie movie, which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Old-form moviemaking at its best."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"All in all, it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones Hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own."
-- Don Irvine, GLOBE AND MAIL
"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."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
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"Monte Cristo smartly emphasizes the well-wrought story and omits needless chase scenes and swordfights as the revenge unfolds."
-- Dan Fazio, CITYSEARCH
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