A big, vacuous, sometimes exciting glamour-puss of a movie. Michael Wilmington,Chicago Tribune
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03/19/2002 @ 12:00 AM
All in all, it's a pretty good execution of a story that's a lot richer than the ones Hollywood action screenwriters usually come up with on their own. Don Irvine,Globe and Mail
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01/30/2002 @ 12:00 AM
There's a thin line between likably old-fashioned and fuddy-duddy, and The Count of Monte Cristo ... never quite settles on either side. Owen Gleiberman,Entertainment Weekly
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01/25/2002 @ 12:00 AM
A rousingly old-fashioned swashbuckler with an abundance of vigorous action and nary a trace of wink-wink irony. Joe Leydon,Variety
An above average piece of junk. Geoff Pevere,Toronto Star
This new movie version of the Alexandre Dumas classic is the stuff of high romance, brought off with considerable wit. Bob Graham,San Francisco Chronicle
It's a fine, old-fashioned-movie movie, which is to say it's unburdened by pretensions to great artistic significance. Eric Harrison,Houston Chronicle
An unexpectedly entertaining slice of old-fashioned swashbuckle, the kind of sweeping, periodically absurd picture that was cranked out on an assembly line in the 1940s. Paul Tatara,CNN.com
The classic book had a lot of complex, smart things to say about revenge. The movie doesn't. Jeff Stark,Salon.com
This is the kind of movie that used to be right at home at the Saturday matinee, and it still is. Roger Ebert,Chicago Sun-Times