Synopsis:
Joan of Arc's life in movie form.

Review:
I liked to say that I liked this movie, but I didn't. Which is to bad because the way I see it Joan of Arc is the only military lead in French history that's actually worth making a film about (although personally, I'd love to find out more about the idiot who came up with the Mageneau Line).

While watching this movie I couldn't help but notice how hot Milla Jovovich looked in all that armor. One thing that stuck me as strange was the number of times Joan's hair changes colour in this movie. I didn't count or anything, but I swear it changed colour at least six times (from start to finish). Who knew Clairol played such an important role in history?

On the plus side this movie is full of good "olde" fashioned battles, with tons of severed limbs, blood and gore. Unfortunately that's about all this movie was good for. That, and Dustin Hoffman doing a piss poor job at a Jewish Obi-wan Kenobi impression.

For the record, I like Luc Besson's films. This just wasn't one of his better ones.

Special Features :
There aren't very many on this disc, and none of them were really worth watching.

The theatrical trailers (The Messenger teaser & main trailer, and The Professional) were nothing special. In fact it left me wondering why there wasn't the trailer for La Femme Nikita (Luc's best film) on this disc.

The isolated music score was great! Yeah right, like I watched this movie with just the music on. I don't know who it is that likes this feature, but I've never seen any point to it.

The talent files were of standard fare. If these things float your boat, go nuts. I find them to be a little boring as a special feature. Lastly, "The Messenger: The Search for the real Joan of Arc" half-hour documentary wasn't that bad. I found it mainly served as a way to compare how close this film was to the real Joan (at least as far as how the backgrounds should look).

Video and Audio:
This film had a nice video transfer, but it was made in 1999 so it was expected, and the Dolby 5.1 really pulled out all the stops during the battle scenes.

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-Nicky Eyes