But I think that has all changed now that he has made this film. In Frequency he was quite good but that was the only film I could really recommend him in. I thought he was alright in Thin Red Line and Angel Eyes but his work in Pay It Forward as the homeless junkie really turned me off of him. I wasn't a big fan of Caviezel's work thus far. Jim Caviezel plays Edmund Dantes and Guy Pearce plays Fernand Mondego. There is enough action in here for all of us looking the for next great swashbuckling adventure and there is also a trace of romance and even some humour. Kevin Reynolds, of Waterworld and Robin Hood fame, was given the director's chair and he doesn't disappoint. How can that not sound intriguing?This present version of Monte Cristo is masterfully made. A simple man makes a decent living, is thrown into prison for a crime he didn't commit and then escapes and finds some hidden treasure and becomes the richest man in the world and extracts revenge. Because it is a story and a concept that we can all relate to, perhaps not out of experience but because we have all dreamed about it. Perhaps that is why the story transcends generations and time frames. And oh what fun it is to imagine yourself finding a buried treasure and then making yourself a king or a count? To have everything usurped from you only to take it all back twenty fold is not only intriguing, it is absolutely diabolical and gives you a sense of power. It is a story that has stood the test of time because it is probably everyone's fantasy to right the unjust wrongs that have been comitted against them. Never getting the opportunity to do so, when the film was advertised, I was, needless to say, excited.The Count of Monte Cristo is the ultimate tale of revenge. Ever since seeing this film I have wanted to read the book. When one of the boys is first given the book, he looks at the authors name and says, " by Alexander Dumb Ass?" and his friend replies, "that's Doomaa, read it, it's about a guy that escapes from prison and takes revenge on the ones that hurt him." That is not the line verbatim, but you get the point.
In the film the boys are tormented by Kevin Bacon and his entourage of prison guards and one of the things that keeps them going is the book, The Count of Monte Cristo. That was the Robert Deniro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman and Barry Levinson film where several youths are sent to a boys prison for an innocent enough mistake that cost someone their life. One is the trailer had me completely intrigued and the second is because I really enjoyed the book and the film version of "Sleepers". There are two reasons I wanted to see this film. Just like you would say anything from Nosferatu to Nightmare On Elm Street is horror, anything pre-1900 is in this "type of film" category.The Count of Monte Cristo is in one word, AMAZING. Anything from Braveheart to Man In The Iron Mask to Quills all falls neatly into this type of category.
I put all kinds of films into this category. You know, old England, old France, old whatever. It is perfectly timed and written, with powerful moments and style, and I would recommend it to ANYONE. At times the theater openly applauded twists or returning characters. The tale of vengeance is well-balanced with tales of friendship, questing and plotting, and romance, and all of the implications each relationship holds, be it good or bad.
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This movie was amazing, with very cool performances from Guy Pearce and the rest of the supporting cast, each figure getting his or her share of good lines. The audience laughed with genuine awe as each new moment or detail was revealed to us in the plans of the main character's played perfectly, from his innocent beginnings to his scheming later years steps towards that end. From then on this film was a barrage of wonderful scripting the adaption being perfect in its pacing and wit, characters, acting, events, costumes, action, suspense and romance. And by the time said Protagonist had escaped the Prison, he too had become wonderfully evoked and dynamic, and I wanted to see him get everything he wanted and deserved: REVENGE. Whole new group of characters were introduced to our rather whiney protagonist - some good, some very bad.