Dagmara Dominczyk was terrible

I totally agree with Antspeaks. Dagmara's beauty was enchanting. I am swept off by the sexiness she brought to the character who plays a central role causing one of the friends to become so jealous of the other, that he resorts to such heinous acts in pursuit of attaining her interests.
I especially liked her in the scene where she hides herself in Monte Cristo's "chariot" waiting him to come in and then reveals herself. She has so elegantly portrayed an awesome combination of happiness, doubt and desperation.

Are you kidding me? She was totally convincing and gorgeous to boot. She's a better actress than Scarlett Johanssen and Natalie Portman combined.

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Shall we dispense with the ad hominem attacks and get down to tin tacks?

If you want to say you don't agree with me and back up your assertions with some information, be my guest. If you just want to hand out insults then you can get stuffed.

She's a tasty element of an otherwise horrible movie. Is she hot? Oh yeah. Is her performance commendable? I don't know - the direction for this movie is laughable, as are the story modifications; i can't tell whether she's good at what she does or not.

"Cain and Abel will go to Heaven... if they can make it through Hell!"
-Los Hijos Del Topo

Well, I hadn't thought of it in terms of subtlety but then I haven't seen a lot of that commodity in this film...interesting thought.

My opinion that she can't act is possibly a little harsh in that this is the only thing I've seen her in and it's hardly a stellar performance. It's interesting to me that the vast majority of respondents to this thread, other than you, seem to be judging her acting ability on her looks which are entirely irrelevant. "Sexy" was another word used but I don't think Stanislavski would have cared much for it as a skill.

For what it's worth, I thought she was good looking but whatever else I thought of her physical attributes, there was no way she could sell me the part. She just wasn't believable.

Yeah, I got told I didn't know what I was talking about for saying that. Apparently, for most people, being beautiful and sexy (or "HOT!") makes those acting skills irrelevant. LOL!

My reaction was exactly the same as yours: I wanted to yell "Speak up!" too. If you go to the scene where she's making the speech for her son's birthday (God, he was a gormless twitt too), she utters a line "It comes to me" almost entirely through her nose. It made me cringe when I heard it because it is so affected. There are lots of other lines, like when she goes to see Dantes or in the carriage, when she is barely audible. It's not that I can't hear her, it's just a distracting affectation which does nothing for the film. Affectations like that are just bad acting.

While I would not say "awful", I would say "irritating" in her voice, for sure. As far as her acting, we have no way of knowing if it wasn't exactly what the director wanted. I saw some disconnects - she seems to act strong and weak by turns - then again, don't normal people do this? But she certainly didn't ruin the movie and she was very pretty.

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sorry...i'm siding with the OP on this one...yes,she was beautiful...quite stunning, and yes, she moved through her character with plenty of grace and elegance....but her diction and her accent were really hard to endure...for starters, it wasn't consistent. there were times she sounded semi-french, sometimes, semi-american, sometimes semi-british. and the mumbling...oh the mumbling!!!! sorry if you disagree-i won't take anything from her visual appeal, and i won't say she's awful, but it did take the enjoyment factor down a notch or 10 for me...