The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
A teenage girl from a remote village in France receives a vision that drives her to stand before the world and announce she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country.
14 February 1910, Dublin, Ireland
3 April 1926, London, England, UK
23 November 1966, Paris, France
17 December 1975, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
1939, Elgin, Scotland, UK
January 20, 2009
Jovovich brings an intensity to the role well-matched to Besson's stylistic energy, though this comic-bookish take on Jeanne D'Arc won't be winning any historical-society awards. [Blu-ray]
March 07, 2002
Makes precious little sense.
January 01, 2000
The English are uniformly and broadly portrayed as villainous louts, and today's four-letter oaths sound laughably anachronistic.
February 14, 2001
Girlfriend was a few fries short of a happy meal.
January 01, 2000
Half-baked.
January 01, 2000
It's hard to recommend it to people who like action and blood because of all the talking; and, because of all the blood, it's hard to recommend it to those who might be interested in the talk.
January 01, 2000
Nothing less than a miracle saved France, The Messenger tells us, and nothing less than a miracle would be needed to rescue this film from itself.
January 01, 2000
What an unholy mess.
November 13, 2008
Impressive to look at, but in the end, it just doesn't ring true.
January 01, 2000
I know less about Joan of Arc now than I did going into the film.
January 01, 2000
Milla Jovovich, who plays Joan, is a young woman who has been unmemorable in several pictures.
March 04, 2002
This unusual French interpretation of Joan of Arc sees her as a radical zealot like John Brown.

