The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Roland Joff?
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Actor: Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Robert De NiroDirector: Roland Joff?
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Panoramic Morality Tale
Summary: 4 Stars
I was interested in seeing "The Mission" when it first came out. I didn't realize that it would take over 20 years before I finally was able to take it in. It seems to have aged well but, then, most historical epics usually do. I was overwelmed by the magnitude of the cinematography. The falls that we revisit often in the film were worth the price of admission.
The film tells of an historic event in which Jesuit priests created some missions in an area around Brazil's southeastern border. The time was around 1750 during which Spanish and Portugese settlements were expanding and civilizing. The Jesuits expand their missionary work to a remote area as we start following the story. The underlying motives of the settlers and the priests are in conflict and Rodrigo, Robert DeNiro's character, is a man who switched between the two factions. We get the general idea as to what will happen. The same thing always happens in these circumstances. After a lot of talk and frontier diplomacy, conflict ensues and the film ends with a sense that the next generation will have to regroup further into the jungle.
Much of "The Mission" was quite compelling. The dialogue between the priests and the Cardinal was interesting at times and predictible at other times. I was bothered by the director's failure to consider that the children that had significant roles in this film did not age. It left the impression that the incredible transformation from "savage" to converted and cultured took place in less than a year's time.
This is a movie that makes many people mad at "civilization". It really is hard to figure out who are the good guys and, I believe, that was intential. It may be that there isn't more than one who fits that title. Maybe that's too many.
Summary of The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Sweeping and visually resplendent The Mission is a powerful action epic about a man of the sword (Robert DeNiro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons) who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires. It reunites key talents behind The Killing Fields: co-producer David Puttnam director Roland Joffe and cinematographer Chris Menges. Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture Award the film earned seven Academy AwardO nominations* (including Best Picture) and won a Best Cinematography OscarO. Robert Bolt's throughtful screenplay and Ennio Morricone's rich score won Golden Globe Awards. The Mission is screen storytelling that weaves a haunting spell.Running Time: 125 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?085392349722Roland Joff? (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joff? is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh
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