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The Count of Monte Cristo

Prepare for adventure. Count on revenge.

7.7(2,144)20022h 11m11

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.

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Status
Released
Budget
$35M
Box office
$75.4M
Language
English
  • treasure
  • based on novel or book
  • loss of loved one
  • marseille, france
  • female lover
  • ex-lover
  • napoleon bonaparte
  • prison escape
  • sword fight
  • torture
  • period drama
  • historical

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Produced in

Ireland, United States of America, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG-1323 Jan 2002
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPGCut19 Apr 2002
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM2 May 2002
  • AustriaAT

    • Digital / OTT127 Jun 2002
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical129 May 2002
  • CzechiaCZ

    • TheatricalU28 Feb 2002
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU17 Apr 2002
    • TVTFX26 Oct 2025
  • French GuianaGF

    • Theatrical17 Apr 2002
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical129 May 2002
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical22 Mar 2002
  • HungaryHU

    • Digital / OTT186 Jun 2002
  • IrelandIE

    • Digital / OTT1229 Mar 2002

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The Count of Monte Cristo was released on 23 January 2002.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    3/15/2019

    8/10

    Fantastic 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 Alexandre Dumas père. Which of course is no bad thing as long as the adaptation is given care and consideration - which hasn't always been the case. So when it was announced…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/8/2022

    6/10

    Jim 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 visitor - the elderly Abbe Faria (Richard Harris), who has been trying to tunnel his way out but took a bit of a wrong turning! The two become firm friends, and his partin…

  • G

    GenerationofSwine

    1/12/2023

    1/10

    Well, 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 able to review individual actors, just so I can write a memo to Guy Peirce and tell him that he needs to stop doing period literary pieces and go back to making films that d…

  • M

    myers.kevin

    7/2/2026

    8/10

    Not as good as the book, but what movie is? I have read the book, and I found the movie a pleasant surprise.

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