Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

abbwend Okay so this book is supposed to be based on the book The Count of Monte Cristo and it's NOTHING LIKE THE BOOK. Yes, it's half of the same characters who are kind of like the way they are in the book but the story line is NOTHING LIKE THE BOOK. It's is so annoying watching this movie. If a person who wants to make a movie about a book it should be a rule that if you can't make the movie like the book maybe you shouldn't be making the movie. I'd rather the movie be 5 hours long and like the book than whatever I just watched. Hollywood, maybe try having an original idea...

mgh_root One of the most underrated movies..I can watch and re-watch millions of times without getting bored..A non-stoppable excitement for the sequential events.. Adventure.. Life changing.. Drama.. Action.. Medieval.. Intelligence.. Love story.. Thriller.. Revenge.. and everything else you'd love to see in a single movie..Perfect cast and performance.. soundtracks are well-picked for each scene.. I have no negative feedback on this movie.. I think it's worth the excellence.. I rated it 10/10.It's always been in ahead of my list of favorites..I wish people re-consider watching this again and give it the real deserved rating..

kristinavesovic i couldn't even watch more then 30 minutes. first, Edmond wasn't friends with Fernando. second they arrested him at the wedding not family dinner. third he didn't try to run away immediately when they arrested him,and he sure didn't run to Fernando... awful. i was so excited when i finished the book. I wanted to see the movie. and i am disappointed. i expected more. i noticed more mistakes, but i won't write them. and all of that for 30 minutes of watching. and i think that there should be more younger actors. Dantes should be 19 year old boy not 30 year old men. Some actors (like Morel) are so old that you think to yourself:he has to live 14 more years (while boy was in jail) and 10 more (while he was planning his revenge)HOW? Also there's this fail with Noirtier...

jc-osms I consider Alexandre Dumas' original novel to be probably the best adventure story I've ever read and would recommend everyone to immerse themselves in it as I did. However it was some years ago that I did so and as it recedes from my memory, I can't recall in detail the incidents from the book as they correlate to this film dramatisation by Kevin Reynolds, late of Kevin Costner's career-torpedoing "Waterworld", so that I can't take the point of view of some of the reviewers here about disparities with the source.For me then it was just a case of just sitting back, identifying enough with the main characters and following again the twists and turns of the story but not slavishly carping with any major deviations from Dumas' written word. It would be impossible anyway to condense such a massive tome into a two hour movie (watch the worthy French language six-part version starring Gerard Depardieu for that), so I just let myself be royally entertained with this sumptuously filmed, sharply written and well acted tale of jealousy, comradeship, enduring love but most of all, of course, revenge.The costumes and sets are a sight for sore eyes as are the well-chosen actual locations, particularly for the climactic scene at the ruined cloisters plus I liked the way film flagged its plotting intentions in planting in advance the little motifs by which Dantes will ensnare all his future prey, carefully dotting the i's and crossing the t's as he lures them to their deserved fates. All the leads perform well, Jim Caviezel mysterious but twisted as the too-trusting innocent taken in by best-friend Colin Farrell's covetous, asinine Mendango, Dagmara Dominczyk exotic but vulnerable as the woman they both love but who ultimately never wavers in her true devotion and Richard Harris in an effective cameo as the old priest who initially supplies the means by which Dantes can embark on his grand plan of payback but who also plants the seed for his moral redemption by the film's close.I almost couldn't believe that this was the same director who helmed Costner's expensive folly. Here Reynolds' direction flows excellently, always at the service of the story, nicely mixing up the action and suspense and while detractors might demur at the liberties taken with the text, I think the film still managed to purvey the underlying themes of the book and most importantly, entertained and thrilled this viewer at the same time.