The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Critic Reviews
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Blends great cinematic energy with an awkwardly mixed multinational cast and aggressively over-modernized dialogue.Read the full review
The lack of a plausible leading lady is enough to sink what is otherwise an eye-catching, although heavily '90s-style, telling of one of history's most frequently filmed stories.Read the full review
Though Ms. Jovovich's performance dominates the film, she remains pedestrian and underwhelming.Read the full review
Never was the case for psychotropic medication more acute than in Jovovich's performance.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
The movie is a mess: a gassy costume epic with nobody at the center.Read the full review
Milla Jovovich is not quite up to the task of playing a nuanced and thoughtful Joan.Read the full review
There's precious little in Luc Besson's solemnly inflated, battle-weary historical epic.Read the full review
For the 148 minutes it takes "The Messenger" to deliver its message, being John Malkovich or Milla Jovovich is really no fun at all.Read the full review
A lot of striking pictures in this would-be feminist "Braveheart," but a film that's pretty flat and earthbound because of the limitations of the figure at its center.Read the full review
