In many scenes she looks and acts as if she should be in a mental institution. History says that when Joan was burned, she didn't move at all. It was as if she didn't feel the fire. Right before she died, she yelled out the name of Jesus. Sadly, all of this was conveniently ignored.
Confusion reigns during much of the film.
Dustin Hoffman's character makes it hard to distinguish whether he is an angel of the Lord of Satan himself. Joan of Arc appears in one scene as a woman of God, and in the next as a mental patient. Further, the acting was terrible. She simply failed. Joan Malcovich and Dustin Hoffman give semi-decent performances, but their characters are so unbelievable that one could care less about their acting ability.