Story Line
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
“Prepare for adventure. Count on revenge.”
Top Cast
Jim Caviezel
Edmond Dantes
Guy Pearce
Fernand Mondego
Richard Harris
Abbé Faria
James Frain
J.F. Villefort
Dagmara Dominczyk
Mercedes Iguanada
Michael Wincott
Armand Dorleac
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Rating
7.7/ 10
Release Date
2002-01-23
Runtime
2h 11m
Genres
AdventureDramaHistoryActionThriller
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
8/10
•3/15/2019Fantastic story given a quite smashing adaptation.
Every once in a while, when Hollywood is stuck for new swashbuckling ideas, they turn to the writer of "The Three Musketeers", "The Man In The Iron Mask" and "The Count Of Monte Cristo", one Ale...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•6/8/2022Jim Caviezel is adequate, no better, as the wronged "Edmond" who gets caught up in a Napoleonic conspiracy that sees him confined on a remote island prison from which no-one escapes alive. His situation seems hopeless, until he receives an unlikely v...
GenerationofSwine
1/10
•1/12/2023Well, it's not one quality... but I like to do a thumbs up or thumbs down approach. If the movie entertains a thumbs up, if it doesn't a thumbs down. Seems simpler than debating on a 4, a 5, a 6, whatever.
This is also kind of why I want to be abl...