1986 · adventure · drama · action
The Mission
Directed by Roland Joffé2h 5m1986
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Our read: The Mission (1986) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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