'Monte Cristo' omits highlights
Film
In addition to its one thousand pages of text, Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a daunting work for many reasons. Dumas' novel is also difficult to imitate--and much more so to adapt-- because of its breadth of subject. The novel parades the virtues and the vices in one nearly mythological man's quest for revenge, all against a textured historical backdrop.
Kevin Reynolds' film adaptation of the work manages to swashbuckle its way through the novel, paring down Dumas' spectrum of emotion to an easy-to-swallow trifle of an adventure film. But in doing so Reynolds...
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