| | |  | Drama | Home » » The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Rodrigo Mendoza (ROBERT DE NIRO) was a violent soldier-for-hire in 1750s South America. Now he is a man of peace serving the Rain Forest Indians he once enslaved. But armies of Spain and Portugal threaten the lifestyle and safety of the native peoples. Now Rodrigo may have to pick up his sword and musket once again. From the producer of Chariots of Fire and the director of The Killing Fields comes a powerful epic co-starring JEREMY IRONS and graced with dazzling Academy Award-winning cinematography, set to a memorable music score and scripted by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of A Man for All Seasons and Doctor Zhivago. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi | | Director:
| Roland Joffé | | Format:
| Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish, French | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Warner Home Video | | Run Time:
| 125 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| May 13, 2003 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 245 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Be aware of Regional viewing issues!Aug 25, 2010
I purchased this DVD from a private seller to view as a requirement for a graduate level class and when I tried to watch it, an error code popped up telling me that I did not have authority to view it in my "Region." Upon researching this error, I learned that all DVD players and DVDs are coded by Region, and DVDs cannot be viewed in different regions; for instance, the USA, Canada and Bermuda are Region 1, and Region 2 includes parts of Europe, Egypt, Japan, South Africa, Swaziland, Greeland, etc. The DVD that I bought, purchased here in the US, is only authorized for viewing in Region 2. I have learned my lesson, and write this review to alert others to be aware of something that I had no idea even existed.
 The Mission DVDJul 30, 2010
The Mission is one of my favorite movies. The acting is superb, especially Robert DeNiro's transformation. The music is haunting and I had to buy the soundtrack. You won't be disappointed!
great serviceJul 26, 2010
A terrific help and willing to work with me to get the product even when problems kept popping up. Thank you, thank you!
Favorite MovieJul 05, 2010
This has always been my favorite movie, especially the music score. I also found the documentary about the village which provided the indian actors, very interesting. The movie is based on a true story which full of hope, forgiveness and rebirth will, in the end, bring the viewer back to the harsh political and economic realities of the European/Western world which has come to dominate our lives and values.
One of the most potent and powerful films then - and stillJun 30, 2010
I just finished watching a movie that, when I first saw it in 1986, made such an impression on me that I could think of nothing else for days. It came at a fragile and life changing moment in my life and for some seven nights I walked several miles back and forth in a bitter winter to see it at the once splendid Ontario Theatre in Washington, DC. The film was Roland Joffé's epic "The Mission" with the unlikely cast of Jeremy Irons, Robert DeNiro, Liam Neeson and Ray McNally. When I first saw it I thought it to be amongst the most beautiful films I'd ever seen, and nearly 25 years later, think so still. While nominated and winning many international awards, The Mission was mostly ignored by Hollywood, receiving only one Oscar (cinematography).
The complexities of the story telling in "The Mission" are almost too much to take in in a single film lasting a bit more than two hours, but Jaffe has woven them together with a touch that is both delicate and profound, creating a tapestry as impressive and intricate as any medieval Flemish tapastry, its story held together flawlessly.
While supposedly created for our own preservation and edification, politics and religion have done as much or more unspeakable horrors in the names of God and Man as they have good and in "The Mission" we see the bloody result, despite the effort of a few rebel priests who believe in the power of love and the natives with whom they try to share their world. The villains are plentiful in this "true tale" and Joffe never disguises them, allowing the deceptive simplicities of "good versus evil" run its predictable course, as they twist and turn everything they touch into the inevitable choked and knotted apocalypse of sorrow that is always the end result of greed.
Despite its bleak, often hopeless nature, Joffe nonetheless gives us a miracle: a film of such ineffable beauty that stirs both heart and mind through the combination of remarkable acting, a wilderness captured in breathtaking cinematography, battles both physical and spiritual, and wed it all to one of the most remarkable musical scores of the late 20th century.
| | |
|
![Up (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p1EfDyT3L._SL75_.jpg "Up (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + BD Live) [Blu-ray]")
