The Mission (Blu-ray) PG

One will trust in the power of prayer. One will believe in the might of the sword.
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 7, 2010
  • Originally Released: 1986
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1986 - Best Cinematography: Chris Menges
Cannes 1986 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 38,846
...Earnest in tone, melancholic in mood....If your tear ducts aren't tingling as its credits roll, check your soul...
Total Film
Jul 1, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- A visual masterpiece that feels outdated at the core of its conflict. Fantastic performances and cinematography. [Full review in Spanish]. Full Review
Cinelipsis
Jul 2, 2019
"The Mission" effectively dramatizes yet another chapter in the ruthless European conquest of the Americas. It'll make you hate the whole of western civilization with every fiber of your being. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
A singularly lumpy sort of movie.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
...Spectacular scenery and an extraordinary high degree of production values....Director Joffe has come up with some stunning scenes...
Variety
May 21, 1986
"The Mission" is everything a movie should be -- magnificently produced, epic in scope, serious in theme -- everything, that is, but good. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: C+ -- Joffe's pseudo-epic about slave trading and missionaries in South America is attractive to look at but distorted and anachronistic. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jan 7, 2009

Product Description:

A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South America. Mendoza (De Niro) is a slave trader and colonial imperialist who murdered his own brother (Aidan Quinn) and seeks penance for his sins by becomining a missionary at Father Gabriel's (Irons) mountaintop mission; Gabriel is a devout and idealistic man who extols nonviolence and peaceful interaction with the natives and colonialists. Despite their differences, the two men must unite to save the mission when Spain, Portugal, and the Catholic church begin negotiating their boundaries in the area--negotiations that will affect both the freedom of the natives and the well-being of the Jesuit missionaries who have set up safe havens for them. Director Roland Joffé's sweeping masterpiece is a haunting account of the unjust treatment of the Guarani Indians of South America and the men who fought desperately, in very different ways, to save them. The film features a mezmerizing musical score by Ennio Morricone that weaves a stunning combination of church choirs and native Indian panpipes into the lush images of the Brazilian rainforest.

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