'Luther' tale interesting, frustrating

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: September 26, 2003| Author: Bob Strauss Los Angeles Daily News | Copyright information

LUTHER -- ** 1/2 -- Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz; rated PG-13 (violence); see "Playing at local movie theaters" for theater listings.

About equal parts interesting and frustrating, "Luther" tells the story of the German monk who founded Protestantism.

If this movie succeeds at anything, it's being as messy as the Reformation itself. There are wildly incompatible tonal shifts. It's psychologically acute here, melodramatically...

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