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Plot: 18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
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MCT:October 8, 2008the indians who played the Guaraní Indians are extraordinary. the american and european cast are quite good. the movie is beautifully shot but the story lags a bit and is somewhat disjunctive.
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MCT:September 25, 2008I first saw this many years ago and was overwheled by the very strong emotions in the film.Lessons to be learned by all who watch this.One to watch!
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MCT:September 19, 2008I loved seeing Robert Dunero in this period peice and Jeremy Irons was so handsome in his role as the preist. My favorite surprise was Liam Neilson and his memorizing blue eyes. These men were hotties in thier prime! See IT!!
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MCT:September 16, 2008
A strong film with a great cast. Morricone's score has become a benchmark in film scoring. Even casual film music fans will have a copy floating around their house.
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MCT:September 10, 2008
The Mission started out as quite a fascinating story, showing wonderous views and delving into the Native American culture. The story is one certainly worthy to tell, but have to confess that I lost interest around half way through the film.
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MCT:August 19, 2008
excellent representation of the church's priorities and individuals who died for what was more important
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MCT:July 29, 2008Didn't even finish it. Kind of boring. EXTREMELY long. Don't listen to Jack Black in The Holiday-- skip this movie.
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MCT:July 23, 2008Nice work by Chris Menges, the movie looked great. The story dragged a little, the fight scenes were weak and the casting was odd for me. So basically the movie just looked good.
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MCT:July 20, 2008
about some priests of the jesuit order who are left by the church (good old church) to defend a tribe of indians with weapons and faith from the portugese and spanish. bobby de niro and jeremy irons are both good in it. it's slow to start off with but once it actually gets going it's a powerful film
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MCT:July 13, 2008
Cultural, amazing real story, realistic acting, and a beautiful music from Enio Morricone really makes this movie shine as one of the best ever made and it is the best movie of its year.
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MCT:July 1, 2008Nice soundtrack and beautiful photography, but the movie as such couldn't captivate me at all. It tries to create suspense but it doesn't continue and stays right there... strange experience.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
This is an incredibly filmed missionary journey back to a time when Faith, Fame, and Fortune were king. The Jesuits are determined to convert more of the natives, and are quite successful at it, but this is not good because the settlers don?t like the competition of the Church. An inevitable conclusion is the biggest mar against this fantastic and absorbing look at the faith of two men and their similar conclusions.
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MCT:May 18, 2008
There may be no such thing as the perfect film but this visually sumptuous movie comes pretty close. Jeremy Irons (whose best work prior to this was in the kids' tv show 'Playaway') and Robert De Niro are both excellent and there is a fine supporting cast. Ennio Morricone's music should have easily won an OSCAR but didn't!
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MCT:May 15, 2008
Fine film with one of the best scores that I have ever heard. The small screen only partially shows how beautiful this looked in the theaters.
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MCT:May 11, 2008
Having just watched Joffe's The Mission, I am now faced with the task of rating it and, like the papal envoy in the film, I am torn between what I must do. On the one hand The Mission is a gorgeous spectacle that towers like a giant redwood over the Hollywood landscape. A staggering epic with Lean-like pretensions, it includes dazzling shots of thunderous waterfalls and dense, wet jungle. This combined with Enrico Morricone's heartbreakingly beautiful score certainly warrants this film getting at least 4 stars.
On the other hand, closer inspection reveals that this redwood is rotten to the core. The plot is hopelessly fractured and quickly becomes weighted down by its own religious ethos. The acting is abysmal and everywhere it begs for the spark of personality that the leading actors could have given it. Unlike Lean, Joffe seems incapable of pulling both elements together to make a captivating story. Instead we are left with a monolith of a film that can only stagger along due to its own inertia.
Perhaps I spoke in haste. Jeremy Irons was born to play the priest and he does a halfway descent job as Father Gabriel, the christ-like jesuit who founds the mission of San Carlos in the remote jungle of South America and then tries to defend his native converts from the encroaching Spanish and Portuguese. Robert de Niro, however, is atrocious as the slaver Rodrigo Mendoza (Brooklyn accent and all). He joins the jesuits after killing his brother in a jealous fit of rage and as penance, hails a heavy suit of armor up a waterfall all the way to the mission where he is supposedly redeemed by the forgiveness of the natives.
This redemption is botched (along with everything else) by a horribly incoherent finale. Mendoza turns his bloodlust against the Portuguese, who are rapidly closing in, and incites the tribe to resist violently. Father Gabriel argues that their salvation can only come through faith. In the end both our protagonists fail as they and the entire tribe are butchered in a confused sequence of shots of fire, smoke and dead bodies. Imperialism triumphs again, hardly I think what the film was trying to get across.
Verdict: The Mission, both slick and sloppy, is presented beautifully gift-wrapped but is without a point and is incapable of making us care. -
MCT:May 11, 2008
A sad history lesson about the Jesuit priests who tried to bring Christianity to the natives in Brazil but get thwarted by politics.
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MCT:April 13, 2008
The mission has all the tools for the perfect classic : An intelligent screenplay by Robert Bolt, an oustanding score by Ennio Morricone, an oscar deserving win for Chris Menges' cinematography, and at last but not least, Jeremy Irons and Robert DeNiro taking over both leading roles.
From Steven Greydanus' review ; The mission is something of an enigma, and you have always the feeling that there was something about that movie that didn't hold together.
I basically share that feeling, also knowing and admitting that this is a very difficult, and a beautiful film. -
MCT:April 11, 2008
I'm having a hard time deciding what to write about this movie, this is by far the most impacting movie that I have ever seen. Yes, the music was beautiful (I own the soundtrack), the scenery was outstanding, the acting was marvelous, but I suppose what touched me most was that the story itself is so compelling (and based on truth) that after viewing this I want to attempt something great for God and for love.
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MCT:April 4, 2008
A beautiful movie, with excellent cinematography. It's quite underrated, I don't know why; it has strong acting, a breathtaking soundtrack, a great story about faith and redemption, what more could you ask for? Perhaps what fails is the narrative line, which stumbles over and over after a wondeful beginning, jumping from point A to point B with few explanations and little visual symbolism to help. The first 10-15 minutes and the last half are masterful creation. The middle is a little messy and rushed, though always well acted, shot and coreographed.
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MCT:March 31, 2008
Very good movie.
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons and Liam Neeson all of them were superb plus the ending absolutely fantastic. -
MCT:March 13, 2008
This film moved me to tears when I saw it in the theater.
The cinematography if breath-taking, the acting is amazing and the music is sublime.
To this day...I can not listen to the soundtrack (Thank you, Ennio Morricone) without getting goose bumps. -
MCT:February 16, 2008
This is a fascinating story ... Jeremy Irons was awesome and DeNiro was terrific as well - this was made back when he actually acted rather than play the same persona over and over and over. I found this movie to be very profound at times.
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