The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

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    The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    1999

    Synopsis

    In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's diminished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.

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    Cast

    • Milla JovovichJoan of Arc
    • John MalkovichCharles VII
    • Faye DunawayYolande of Aragon
    • Dustin HoffmanJoan's conscience
    • Pascal GreggoryThe Duke of Alençon
    • Vincent CasselGilles de Rais
    • Tchéky KaryoJean de Dunois
    • Richard RidingsLa Hire
    • Desmond HarringtonAulon
    • Timothy WestCauchon

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Time

      A lively, nutty film, one full of clumsy, clanging battles filmed by the gifted, eccentric Besson with bloody brio.
    • 70

      Los Angeles Times

      Blends great cinematic energy with an awkwardly mixed multinational cast and aggressively over-modernized dialogue.
    • 63

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      You might be occasionally dumbfounded by The Messenger, but you won't be bored.
    • 60

      Washington Post

      Never was the case for psychotropic medication more acute than in Jovovich's performance.
    • 60

      Chicago Reader

      Luc Besson--and Andrew Birkin wrote the pandering, adolescent screenplay for this pseudosubversive hagiography, and nearly every scene screams out its sensationalist intent, though few actually achieve the status of spectacle.
    • 50

      New York Post

      Besson is unable to weave the comic scenes together with the serious gory ones, so both seem increasingly jarring and unbelievable.
    • 50

      USA Today

      Has a three-way split personality, which happily includes an action-packed middle to ease the pain of its early protracted exposition and later action so slow that you'll be asking "Gotta match?" to the person next to you.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      Besson's account of the Maid of Orleans presents itself as a celebration of a martyr's faith but shows more interest in the violence and hatred that surrounded her life.

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