Luther

Corny and irritatingly simplistic though this fast-paced biography of 16th-century German religious reformer Martin Luther may be, it's undeniably entertaining. Making good on his promise to give himself to God after a terrifying lightening storm, Martin Luther (Joseph Fiennes) abandons his law career to join the Augustinian monks in Erfurt. He makes an inauspicious start as a Catholic priest — filled with self-loathing and doubtful of God's mercy, Luther fumbles his way through his very first mass — but has an eye-opening experience when his spiritual father (Bruno Ganz) sends him to Rome. Luther is appalled by what he sees: priests consorting with prostit...