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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
History /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Roland Joffé
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Actors:
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Ronald Pickup,
Ray McAnally,
Cherie Lunghi,
Chuck Low,
Daniel Berrigan,
Álvaro Guerrero,
Bercelio Moya,
Sigifredo Ismare,
Asuncion Ontiveros,
Alejandrino Moya,
Rolf Gray,
Robert De Niro,
Jeremy Irons,
Aidan Quinn,
Liam Neeson
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)96.5
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Plot Summary:
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Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to enlarge a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave huntswoman who is converted and joins Irons in his commission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they sooner a be wearing built against the Portugese aggressors.
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Tags:
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Recommended
A slow story that feature a beautiful sound track & location which almost make up for the speed of the film.
Not for everyone but still recommended.
Mission, The
Roland Joffé's visually lush retelling of the historical destruction of an 18th century Jesuit mission in the South American jungle. Stars Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons and boasts a score from Ennio Morricone
The Mission never lives up to its opening: it's not that the rest of the film is bad, it's just that this sequence is so spectacular. A group of South American Indians carry a man (who we later learn is a Jesuit priest), bound to a cross, wearing a crown of thorns on his head. They throw him into a river, they run away, and the camera swoops in and out as he's shown plunging over the edge of a waterfall. It's breathtaking: the unforgettable image, made all the more powerful as Morricone's haunting theme swells over the pounding water. Although it i...
Mission, The
"...Various brilliant sequences....Joffe is glowingly in demand of his emotional commitments..."
Mission, The
Sincere to the mention of ennui, this 22-million-dollar would-be epic is hastily on plot development, long on superb photography of slender actualities.
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