The Count of Monte Cristo

Year: 2002 Rating: PG-13 Overall Evaluation: 9.0 Significance Suppositions Story Style 9.0 / 10 9.0 / 10 9.0 / 10 10.0 / 10 Click HERE for evaluation criteria.

Style

Rated PG-13 for adventure violence/swordplay and some sensuality.

Story

This film version of the classic Alexandre Dumas' novel is about a common ship crewman who is stabbed in the back by his best friend and wrongfully accused of treason and sent to a miserable prison by a man who is trying to cover up for someone else's actual treason. Through a remarkable series of events he escapes only to discover that his life has been stolen form him in more ways than one. He devises a complicated and ingenious plot to take revenge on those who wronged him. After a series of pay-backs the hero finally realizes that revenge is not as important as holding on to what you have.

Suppositions

It is rather highly imaginative, but nothing terribly difficult to believe following the worldview of the time.

Significance

This is a classic revenge movie that saves a really bad message at the last minute by allowing the hero to realize that he has been offered something more important - that he has been blessed and he will lose what he has gained if he does not stop his quest for vengeance.