This faithful filmization concerns the notorious starring named Edmond Dantes (well featured by James Cazievel) who's betrayed by his friends , the count Montego (Guy Pearce who was originally offered the lead role of Edmond) and others , as the astute chief magistrate (James Frain). He's framed as sender of Napoleon's letters who's jailed in island of Elba . Then , he's punished to life imprison in island of If where he finds a lot of suffering . Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Château d'If for 18 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him . While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria (Richard Harris), a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. Edmond spends years unjustly at the Château-prison but he escapes and gets the treasure of Montecristo .He proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to carry out a relentless vendetta against his enemies . The revenge is ready against the nasty traitors who accused him.
This is a fine and enjoyable but overlong remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name . In the film there are adventures , action , a love story , derring-do and results to be pretty amusing . Agreeable and attractive rendition based on the famous novel with emotional highs and lows , in which Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for several years , and with the help another prisoner he escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and to exact his merciless revenge . Although movie runtime is two hours and some and is neither tiring , nor boring but entertaining . James Cazievel's interpretation is first-rate as his subsequent acting in ¨The Passion of the Christ¨by Mel Gibson . He leads a magnificent cast in this rousing classic . Guy Pearce plays correctly the evil villain Montego and Dagmara Domincyk is wonderful as the fiancée , though she is only seven years older than Henry Cavill who plays her son. Riveting Richard Harris in a brief appearance , he gives a phenomenal acting in his last film as an old inmate in the terrible island of If . It packs a brilliant and glimmering cinematography by cameraman Andrew Dunn . As well as emotive and evocative musical score by Ed Shearmur . This superb motion picture was well directed by Kevin Reynolds (Fandango , Waterworld , Robin Hood ). The flick will appeal to adventure buffs and emotion lovers . Rating : 7/10 . Good , better than average . Well worth watching .
Other adaptations about this known novel are the following ones : ¨Count of Montecristo¨ by Rowland V. Lee with Robert Donat , Louisa Landi , Louis Calhern ; ¨El conde de Montecristo" (1953) by Leon Klimomovsky with Jorge Mistral ; ¨Le Comte De Monte Cristo ¨(1961) by Claude Aunt Lara with Louis Jourdan ; TV retelling ¨Count of Montecristo¨by David Greene with Richard Chamberlain , Donald Pleasence , Tony Curtis ; ¨Le Comte De Monte-Cristo" series (1979) with Jacques Wever , ¨The Count of Monte Cristo¨ (1992) and the best TV mini-series ¨The count of Montecristo¨(1998) by Josee Dayan with Gerard Depardieau , Jean Rochefort , Pierre Arditi , Ornella Muti and Michael Aumont .
This is a fine and enjoyable but overlong remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name . In the film there are adventures , action , a love story , derring-do and results to be pretty amusing . Agreeable and attractive rendition based on the famous novel with emotional highs and lows , in which Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for several years , and with the help another prisoner he escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and to exact his merciless revenge . Although movie runtime is two hours and some and is neither tiring , nor boring but entertaining . James Cazievel's interpretation is first-rate as his subsequent acting in ¨The Passion of the Christ¨by Mel Gibson . He leads a magnificent cast in this rousing classic . Guy Pearce plays correctly the evil villain Montego and Dagmara Domincyk is wonderful as the fiancée , though she is only seven years older than Henry Cavill who plays her son. Riveting Richard Harris in a brief appearance , he gives a phenomenal acting in his last film as an old inmate in the terrible island of If . It packs a brilliant and glimmering cinematography by cameraman Andrew Dunn . As well as emotive and evocative musical score by Ed Shearmur . This superb motion picture was well directed by Kevin Reynolds (Fandango , Waterworld , Robin Hood ). The flick will appeal to adventure buffs and emotion lovers . Rating : 7/10 . Good , better than average . Well worth watching .
Other adaptations about this known novel are the following ones : ¨Count of Montecristo¨ by Rowland V. Lee with Robert Donat , Louisa Landi , Louis Calhern ; ¨El conde de Montecristo" (1953) by Leon Klimomovsky with Jorge Mistral ; ¨Le Comte De Monte Cristo ¨(1961) by Claude Aunt Lara with Louis Jourdan ; TV retelling ¨Count of Montecristo¨by David Greene with Richard Chamberlain , Donald Pleasence , Tony Curtis ; ¨Le Comte De Monte-Cristo" series (1979) with Jacques Wever , ¨The Count of Monte Cristo¨ (1992) and the best TV mini-series ¨The count of Montecristo¨(1998) by Josee Dayan with Gerard Depardieau , Jean Rochefort , Pierre Arditi , Ornella Muti and Michael Aumont .