The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition) |  | Director: Roland Joffé
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  236 reviews
Sales Rank: 2856
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 0.7
MPN: 23497
ISBN: 0790775581
UPC: 085392349722
EAN: 9780790775586
ASIN: B00003CXBH
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1986
Release Date: May 13, 2003
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| • | 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 |
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Roland Joffé (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 Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 13-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD
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 The Mission February 8, 2010
This is such as awesome movie (The Mission), that I just had to buy a copy and view it over and over.
Also since the Movie SCORE (Nella Phantasia) was eventually redone by Sarah Brightman with her adding lyrics to it, it just tied both together perfectly!
If you see the movie and listen to the SCORE, then you have to also listen to Sarah Brightman's version of: Nella Phantasia.
 Great disk set. February 5, 2010
Patrick G. Johnston (Pat Johnston, Mesa, AZ)
Great box set I gave my wife for Christmas. Easy to order, quickly shipped, arrived well packaged. Excellent movie, well acted and wonderful location scenery.
Patrick
Underrated Great Movie February 1, 2010
M. Ross (Orange, CA USA)
This is one of those rare movie gems that seems to have come and gone without much notice. It is, in fact, one of the better movies in the catalogue.
Robert Deniro stars, but in an atypical role for him, much to his advantage. He is simply excellent. Jeremy Irons stars alongside Deniro and is similarly excellent, matching Deniro's intensity with a quiet poise.
What is the movie? It is about repentance, moral truth, and religious corruption. It is about colonial exploitation, the politics of power, and the ultimate triumph of good. The movie will move you, but the score will simply make you weep. Ennio Morricone composed the score for this movie and if it isn't one of the most powerful, beautiful works made for the screen, I just don't know what is.
I won't speak to plot details, as I there are dozens of excellent, professional, reviews that are much better at that. The movie is an adventure, but not of the rollicking, fun sort. It has strong themes of power and religion, but is not moralizing. It is just one of the most moving, beautiful films I have ever seen.
Breathtaking and beautiful! January 26, 2010
Ankur Mukherjee
The film really moved me. I honestly didn't have any expectations from this film but wow was I ever so surprised. Jeremy Irons and Robert DiNero does an excellent work, they have a chemistry such deep and strong that its worth looking out for. Jeremy Irons is excellent in the role of the priest focussed on his attempt to introduce Indian natives to Christianity and DeNiro as the slavetrader is impeccable. The scenery, cinematography is breathtaking. A journey worth witnessing, a film worth seing again and again.
Corruption in the palace of justice December 20, 2009
Gary H. Hamlin (california)
Here is a true view of the Church and State working in disharmoney.
So corrupt are both the Church and the very catholic (christian) states of Spain and Portugal that it never occures to them to put the believes they espouse before their need for power and money. A tale (based on fact) to break your heart. There is no defence for any of the actions in this story. Again we see deeds done in God's name, and the bloody hands that result. Like WWI, a "war where God was on everyones side".
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