Product: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Region 2) (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Not too bad or too good
While reviewing this video, I have wondered about whether Joan of Arc was portrayed accurately from a historical standpoint.The writer depicts Joan as somewhat of an mentally off balanced or insane eccentric who has weird visions. Realizing that Joan was declared a saint some 500 years later, the writer attempts to protray her as material for sainthood with Joan obsessed with confession to a priest for her sins and belief in transubstantiation as the means of empowering her for her tasks.The Roman Church with its Inquisition that tried Joan is pictured in a much favorite light. The English get most of the blame in the end, as the church Inquisitors try to exonerate her but in the end declaring her to be a martyr for the English.In comparison, the video Joan of Arc played by Leelee Sobieski has a much better and believable plot than this one. Milla Jovovich has a much harder role in this script. She does a good job as does her suppporting actors.