The Mission (Special Edition) > Reviews

Advantages: Everything about this film is superb...
Disadvantages: None...

...as originally a man of the sword, who is converted to being a man of the cloth after he kills his brother (Aidan Quinn). The main plot is that South American Indians are being enslaved by Portugal who try to dig out all the Indians they can find and sell them. However there are certain Jesuits who build Missions in order to convert the Indians into Christians and also to protect them therefore from the rampaging Portugese. Jeremy Irons and a handful ... Read review

Advantages: Great Film
Disadvantages: going through a box of tissues

...South America. Robert De Nero plays the princible character, He plays a Spanish noblman who kills his brother and then seeks to redeem himself by living his life as a recluse. He ends up joining a mission and travels to the Rain forests of South America and lives with the local tribes teaching them christianity, When he goes back to spain he learns that the spanish are going to invade and take all the land. so Robert De Nero decides to go back and ... Read review

Advantages: Execellent cinematography, superb soundtrack, two disc set.
Disadvantages: Little, perhaps a few more character developments

--- OVERVIEW --- Set in the late 1700's in South America, The Mission is a powerful tale of a Jesuit priest and a slave driver coming together to protect the native tribes of the jungles there. Starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons who dominant the film, there is moving acting, using emotions rather than words to express the mood of the movie. The film sees Robert De Niro ending his part in capturing slaves for the Europeans plantations and ... Read review

Advantages: Beautiful cinematography and soundtrack, great cast
Disadvantages: Little humour

...soundtrack (written by Ennio Morricone). The plot covers the establishment of a Jesuit mission amongst a local native Indian tribe, the Guaranis, in Paraguay in the 18th century. Jeremy Irons stars alongside Robert de Niro as the missionaries meeting the challenges of working with the local peoples, personal demons and the constant threat from the new colonial masters of the region, the Portuguese. The plot is a masterly vehicle for both leading characters ... Read review