Product: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Region 2) (1999)
Rating: 5.0
5 STARS???? I SAY 6
If you like historical movies, such as Alexander and Kingdom of Heaven, you will fall in love with this one.An illiterate Extremely beautiful peasant girl (milla Jovovich), hearing voices of god at the age of 13, convinces the dauphin of France, who lost half of his country, about to lose the other half, and not able to become king in the present situation, to give her an army so she leads France to victory. Amazingly she succeeds; Joan changes history and leads the French army for 2 years. The English, faced with a feared lunatic leader, loose the first battle and retreat from the other. The dauphin is crowned King of France.Happy with his crown, the king wants to negotiate with The English, while Paris is starving and under siege. Joan is not convinced and wants an army to liberate Paris.To get rid of her, he leads her to a trap where she gets caught by the English soldiers.Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy only to be glorified 500 years later as a legendary icon. The irony in our world.Wow. what a story. This movie tells us everything about the GRATITUDE of the human kind. A lesson to all.This is simply a great historical movie.The quality of the DVD is great with amazing features as well.Very highly recommended for the history lovers.