Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Milla Jovovich plays Joan of Arc, a 15th century
peasant girl who hears voices from God that help her lead the French in several victorious
battles against the English. Also with John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman,
Pascal Greggory, Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Richard Ridings, Desmond Harrington,
Timothy West, Christian Erickson, Mathieu Kassovitz, John Merrick and Olivier Rabourdin. [2:28]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - We see the bare shoulders of two people bathing, a nude
woman's torso (her breasts are covered with flowers) and we glimpse the top of a
woman's bare breasts as a man rips her shirt (see Violence/Gore below).
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - At least five extended battle scenes show lots of
sword-fighting, punching and beating with clubs and spiked balls; we also see two men
decapitated (blood spurts from their necks), a man's throat slit, men's legs and
arms cut off, several impalings (one man is speared through the crotch) and many people
shot with arrows (one man is pierced with lots of arrows and we see the bloody arrowheads
sticking out of his chest; also, someone is shot in the chest, and eventually pulls the
arrow out with some blood seeping and spurting). A man holds a woman against a wall and
rips her shirt and skirt (see Sex/Nudity above); after she slaps him, he impales her (we
see blood on the knife and running out of her mouth) then proceeds to rape her, with lots
of moaning and thrusting (a young girl and two men witness this; we briefly see part of
the scene again in a flashback). A woman tied to a stake is engulfed in flames; we see a
close-up of her burning face a couple of times. A drawbridge crushes many men and hot oil
is poured on some soldiers. A woman is kicked repeatedly by several men; they also throw
her on a bed, rip off her clothes (no nudity is visible). When a girl steps toward a man,
many soldiers hold knives to her neck. A man nearly crushes another's head so he can
have his teeth. We see soldiers burning down a village and chasing villagers. Soldiers
push a burning battering ram through a castle's door and start several fires; also
flaming arrows shot into a castle start some fires. A cannonball hits a building and
crumbles one of its walls; also, during battle, several men are hit with cannonballs and
thrown backwards into a mound. Men climbing ladders are pushed and fall onto the ground. A
group of wolves run toward a girl and look like they're going to attack her, but they
run past her. We see lots of people with bloody cuts on their faces, blood on armor, a few
bloody cloths on wounds and lots of blood smeared on hands and faces. Several times we see
blood running down a man's face (he's supposed to be Jesus). We see lots of
corpses (some of which are bloody) in a few post-battle scenes; in one scene we see a
bloody head and several other bloody dismembered body parts strewn on the ground (we also
see birds and a wolf pulling flesh from the corpses). We see a badly decomposing corpse. A
girl drinks wine that looks like blood when it spills down her face and neck. Blood seeps
onto a on a map.
the review continues below...
PROFANITY 6 - About 10 F-words, many mild obscenities and some insults. [profanity glossary]
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