The two principal actors, Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, work hard to animate their parts. But there is little to do. The Mission is probably the first film in which De Niro gives a bland, uninteresting performance.
The Mission
One will trust in the power of prayer. One will believe in the might of the sword.
1986 · 2h 5m · PG
Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Directed by
Roland Joffé
Overview
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
The Mission manages to be both magnificent and curiously uninvolving, a buddy movie played in soutanes.
A singularly lumpy sort of movie.
"The Mission" is everything a movie should be -- magnificently produced, epic in scope, serious in theme -- everything, that is, but good.
"The Mission" effectively dramatizes yet another chapter in the ruthless European conquest of the Americas. It'll make you hate the whole of western civilization with every fiber of your being.
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