The Count Of Monte Cristo (DVD) Reviews

When a story has been dramatised into film nine times already, it does rather beg the question, “What’s the point of doing yet another version?” In 2002, it was nearly twenty years since the last film version of Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel had been released in cinemas, so with an entirely new generation of film goers to be enthralled, perhaps ...

Jim Caviezel stars in this big budget Hollywood-style adaptation of the book by Alexandre Dumas. He's the fella from Frequency, the muddled time-travel-communication film with Dennis Quaid. It's a good try at representing the 900-page epic, which in its original form was serialised over dozens of editions of a French newspaper. It's a fiction, ...

As many of you may have done, I watched this film on TV a few nights ago, since I have heard of the book but never read it, and I have recently watched and enjoyed Le Bossu (The Hunchback), so I'm into period French revenge swashbucklers at the moment. The first thing I have to say about this film is that if you watched the fourth series of 24, ...

I saw The Count of Monte Cristo on the first day it came out in the UK, but I wasn't overly impressed. Here's why... =========================================== The Man in the Iron Mask, Anybody? =========================================== Dashing young men dash across the screen quite dashingly in ...

In a time when ‘adventure’ in the cinema tends to either be your big special effects-laden fantasy epic (Lord of the Rings) or your big special effects-laden action adventure (The Mummy, for instance), The Count of Monte Cristo sees cinema harking back to an era where ‘adventure’ was more adventurous all by itself and not ...

If you've read any of my other opinions, you will note that I love films. Not in the way that some people do - to sit down ant chat about hidden meanings and the rationale behind shooting through a mauve filter (although I respect anyone who has this level of understanding) - but in the sense that nothing beats going and sitting and stuffing ...

Firstly I may be biased because I love the plot. To be succinct, its all about revenge. Edmond dantes (poor, low class) is betrayed by his best friend - a rich who should want for nothing. The reason for betrayel is he does want - everything Dantes has. Probably the major want is Dantes' attractive girlfriend. So let's not give too much ...

What?” I said “I said, d’ya fancy going to see the remake of “The Count of Monte Cristo”?”, she replied. “ A remake of “The Count of Monte Cristo” how redundant is that? A story which, according to IMDB.com, has been made into a cinematic movie 13 times, 3 TV movies and 4 ...

They don’t make adventure movies like they used to. Hey, bear with me – it’s difficult coming up with an opening line! But it’s true – ‘adventure’ in the cinema these days tends to either be your big special effects-laden fantasy epic (Lord of the Rings) or your big special effects-laden action adventure ...

Based on Alexander Dumas’ novel, this promised to be a swashbuckling, bodice-ripping tale of adventure, love and revenge. I was hoping that the balance would lie towards the swashbuckling and away from the bodice-ripping, as I like my films, and I was not to be disappointed. PLOT Edmond Dantes (James Caviezel) and Fernand ...

I know this section is for the book, but as the film is the same story and there are only 3 ops in this category, then I thought it made more sense to put it here rather than wait weeks for dooyoo to put up a seperate category, especially as it seems likely that my op would be the only one in it. The count of Monte Cristo is a french ...