Luc Besson's crude rendering of a slice of history tackled numerous
times on film before showcases every imaginable failure of taste and
judgement - it is impossible to believe that the same director made
Leon. Milla Jovovich, purposeful but patchy as Joan, is actually the
least of the film's worries, for its bloated length bombards the viewer
with derivative battle scenes, risible intrigue and more deliberate
attempts at humour that fall persistently flat in the mud. Neither
intelligent, revisionistic or even particularly enjoyable, it's an
object lesson in how not to make movies.
