“God will grant me justice.”

As an avid proponent of swashbuckler films—everything from Erroll Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood to Logan Lerman in The Three Musketeers. The latter was written by Alexandre Dumas who also wrote the book from which the current movie The Count of Monte Cristo was adapted.

Synopsis: A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous “friend”, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.

This is one of my all-time favorite films. I am the one you will find who is always rooting for the underdog, who in this case just happens to be Edmond Dantès, played by Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ). who is framed by jealous wealthy frenemies. Danglars (Albie Woodington), a shipmate hated Dantes because he was promoted to Captain. Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce), a romantic rival betrayed him because he wanted his fiancee’, Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk). The double-dealing magistrate De Villefort (James Frain) framed him to protect his father who was a Napoleon Loyalist. Without a trial, these three conspirators place poor naive Edmond in the most horrible prison the Château d’If, a grim island fortress off Marseille.

There he befriends Abbé Faria (Richard Harris) who becomes a mentor to Edmond in exchange for helping him dig a tunnel. Faria teaches Dantes how to read, write, fence, and a plethora of other things along with giving him directions on how to get to the treasure of the Spada family. While in prison Dantes purposed in his heart that if he ever got out of this hopeless situation he would exact revenge on those three men who had him placed in prison without a cause. While constantly carving into the prison wall “God will grant me justice.”

Will Edmond get out of the Château d’If? Will he find the Spada family treasure? Will he exact revenge on those three conspirators? You will just have to watch the movie to find out.

The Count of Monte Christo was released in 2002, is 2hr 11min, is rated PG 13, and can be seen on Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, or Vudu on your Roku device.

Director: Kevin Reynolds.
Writers: Alexandre Dumas and Jay Wolpert.
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Christopher Adamson, and Richard Harris.

We give The Count of Monte Christo

If you like a movie with great acting, intrigue, romance, adventure, action, and surprises you will find The Count of Monte Christo a movie watcher’s dream for family night. It keeps you on the edge of your seat guessing what will happen next. The costumes and sets are beautifully designed. This is a literary treasure built on the golden days of Hollywood premise with a moral twist—Revenge and hatred are not the means to fill and fix the hurt of a broken heart. Only through forgiveness can we begin to be healed. And in that way, God will grant us justice.

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