Le Comte de Monte-Cristo 2024 BluRay.DDP Torrent

44/34

With an estimated budget of €429 million, The Count of Monte Cristo is the most expensive French film of 2024

Synopsis

After escaping from an island prison where he spent 14 years for being wrongly accused of treason, Edmond Dantès returns as the Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on the men who betrayed him. When Albert watches Hydee sing and play guitar, it is very obvious that she is not even touching the strings half the time.

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It is always tricky to approach something as complex as this novel and try to come up with a coherent film that presents all the plots, subplots, and sub-subplots, not to mention the characters faithful to the book. I enjoyed the Richard Chamberlain TV movie and the 2002 film despite some wholesale plot cutting in both.

Even the 6 hour and 23 minute 1998 miniseries couldn’t do the whole story and it’s been my definitive adaptation for 25 years

The thing is, in order to fit it into 3 hours, it was clear that some plots were going to be cut, characters changed, and the narrative simplified. The question then becomes whether this was done in a way that allows those who don’t already know the story, those who have maybe read the book three or four times, and everyone in between to enjoy it.

Totally entertaining and I never felt like it was a 3 hour movie

Clearly, the producers understood the underlying themes and (aside from one minor criticism I had that I won’t post as a spoiler) did the original a great service and still managed to include subplots that I thought they were going to cut. Of course, if you’re a purist who hated Lord of the Rings because Peter Jackson changed the characters and aspects of a 100% faithful adaptation of the book, then you won’t like this one either.

It also has a great soundtrack, the reprise of which kept me watching through the entire credits