Good Film
Added 11/20/2009
If you really want a good sense of what Martin Luther went through, fighting the Catholic Church, and bringing truth to Christians, buy this movie. Excellent movie!
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Excellent! Drama,suspence,costume,truth,heroism,splended acting,pagentry,great locations,a period piece, history that changed the christian world, make it a must see movie. I have watched it 3 times so far during the month I have had it. I know I will watch it again every now and again.
David Reavis
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This is the best documentary of Martin Luther's life we have seen. It is well acted (Joseph Fiennes & Sir Peter Ustinov) and it leaves you with a very clear picture of Martin Luther, the man.
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"Luther" is well-done
Added 10/3/2009
Acting is great. Scenes are well-done. Seems fairly accurate to history (for a movie, especially). Entertaining. Educational. Enriching. Make sure you have the whole 2 hours to watch it. Great movie. Sola fide!
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An OK movie with a mind of its own
Added 9/18/2009
Luther is the kind of movie one would expect from Fox News or some other biased source material. It doesn't paint the complete picture of Luther nor does it wish to be objective when it comes to the history it is handling. Instead what you get is a rather pretentious story which expects you to "feel" for Luther when it reality Luther was a lot more extreme in his personality. The movie does depict his disillusional side and his argumentative side, however it doesn't come close to doing it justice. Luther in reality was a very hard man, harsh at times with his opinions and never wavering or showing compassion for your own opinion. Luther was right and you were wrong. The portrayal of the Catholic Church and of Rome again was only part of the picture. It would be like showing you the bad parts of a town in order to force your opinion. The Catholic Church was under going trials of its own and although the abuse of indulgences was a fact of the time, the exaggeration of abuses especially from the Dominican Order is completely unfounded and obviously comes from a study of biased material not a true representation of the time. The movie doesn't spend a lot of time in discussing whether Luther was right or wrong, just that he was right and the Catholic Church was wrong. This is again a misconception of Luther and of the period of history in question. Scholars, unbiased an objective scholars still to this day discuss the legitimacy of Luther's claims.
The movie doesn't even acknowledge Luther's own hypocrisy. This leaves the movie too one-sided and not as complete as it could have been. It also seems there is a bit of over-acting issues when it comes to Joseph Finnes and Alfred Molina, two actors who are accomplished enough to not suffer though such an atrocious screenplay. Luther falls very flat from where it could have gone and does a great injustice to the history it is trying to depict and reveal. You would do better in following a school course on Reformation history.
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