Product: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Region 2) (1999)
Rating: 1.0
A reason to revive the Inquistion.
Where to start criticizing this movie? It fails so miserably on so many levels that it's difficult to know where to begin.It's obvious from watching this movie that the people who made it either didn't read the historical facts concerning Joan or did read them and simply chose to ignore them.Furthermore, you would never know Joan of Arc was a devout Catholic from seeing this movie. Aside from a few one sentence requests to see a priest, Joan's deep faith and spirituality are totally left out. Not that Milla Jovovich has that kind of range as an actress anyway but couldn't they have at least tried?Other than that I don't know what to say about a movie that seems to go out of its way to demonize a young girl who, by all contemporary accounts, was literally a living saint.It's just a terrible movie. Please don't waste your money.