Milla Jovovich, personally, is an actress I like a lot, so my review is slanted right from the start. But the movie is really well filmed, in my opinion. Excellent war scenes with medieval war devices seldom seen in any other movie. A number of the aspects of warfare and armaments in The
Messenger were portrayed quite accurately and a few military historians, including Kelly DeVries, have commented on such. It had great visuals, in my opinion very good acting on everyone's part. Milla Jovovich's acting was superb in my opinion, and why the knee jerk negativity from people parroting everyone else saying "she's a model, she can't act" is just too lemming like to avoid being sadly humorous. I've watched it three times over the last few years and I own the DVD. Very good cast. The general and his troops were excellent. It's so typical of French history, too, lose most of your battles, finally find someone who leads you to victory, and then betray her and let your enemy burn her at the stake. I think at least a few of the negative reviews are from French apologists.
Milla Jovovich, personally, is an actress I like a lot, so my review is slanted right from the start. But the movie is really well filmed, in my opinion. Excellent war scenes with medieval war devices seldom seen in any other movie. A number of the aspects of warfare and armaments in The
Messenger were portrayed quite accurately and a few military historians, including Kelly DeVries, have commented on such. It had great visuals, in my opinion very good acting on everyone's part. Milla Jovovich's acting was superb in my opinion, and why the knee jerk negativity from people parroting everyone else saying "she's a model, she can't act" is just too lemming like to avoid being sadly humorous. I've watched it three times over the last few years and I own the DVD. Very good cast. The general and his troops were excellent. It's so typical of French history, too, lose most of your battles, finally find someone who leads you to victory, and then betray her and let your enemy burn her at the stake. I think at least a few of the negative reviews are from French apologists.