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Summary Joseph Fiennes stars as Martin Luther, whose bold actions fostered an era of personal and religious freedoms unprecedented in history. (R.S. Entertainment)
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Summary Joseph Fiennes stars as Martin Luther, whose bold actions fostered an era of personal and religious freedoms unprecedented in history. (R.S. Entertainment)
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Fiennes has imagined and created from within. His Luther is not the thunderer we might expect, but he is, wondrously, the incarnation of a man passionate for God and angry with mundane intercessions.
The film winds up stranding us in a desperate wilderness of collapse and betrothal.
After a summer of numbing mindlessness, there is something frankly refreshing about a movie that deals even superficially with as significant a figure as the rebellious 16th century theologian Martin Luther, one of the founders of Protestantism and the man who put the reform in the Reformation.
How did this rude monk, prey to depression and satanic hallucinations, change the course of history? Luther offers scant illumination, for the big brown eyes that served Joseph Fiennes so well in "Elizabeth" are little help with the spirit of Reformation.
But for that one bright, incongruous yuk-fest in the classroom, Luther is deadly material, full of self-righteousness and devoid of balance.
Proceeds like a stultifying history pageant rather than a movie with a pulse of its own.
How did anyone even enjoy this crap! First off, it is pretentiously long! It's filled with so much story that's never very clear. The story just jumps place to place and sometimes is confusing to fully understand. Second, the characters! Joseph Fiennes as Luther is fine (I guess) but the other characters are utter crap! Plus, there are characters that aren't shown very well. There in the movie, but there just there. It cuts back to them now and then, but they're just there for appearance. A prefect example, Alfred Molina as John Tetzel! He shows up for like 5-10 mins and you'd think he'd become a main character or a strong supporting character at least! No! He's just gone. Don't know why! That was probably the only part of the movie that I truly liked. This is movie is like going to a bad sermon that never spits the message out clearly. Overall, this is lame!!!!!! It gets an F!!!!!!
Have already rated thos movie and surprise surprise its gone missing. This film is so poor it is a insult to the TV show. Half hacked story a villian to forget and victims no one cares about. Hang up your badge Luther before you get investigated for fraud mate.
Production Company NFP Teleart Berlin (I), Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Eikon Film, ARD Degeto Film, Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), German Information Center
Release Date Sep 26, 2003
Duration 2 h 3 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Rebel. Genius. Liberator.
Bavarian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Columbus International Film and Animation Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Biberach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination