Movie Review - The Mission
The Mission (1986)
directed by Roland Joffé
rating: 3 out of 5 jalapeños
on DVD from Andy
It's hard to top so succinct a thematic summation as a Jesuit in South America tied early to a cross and set adrift down the river towards his roaring, avalanching doom. Will Campbell - the quintessential liberal Presbyterian minister - must have wallowed in the ensuing melodrama, a weight that all but overwhelms the lurking beast of accountability and conscience. The animal's there; it just gets lost between so much green and so much ham. Sorry, Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro. Sorry, deep jungle. Sorry, gloomy world.
directed by Roland Joffé
rating: 3 out of 5 jalapeños
on DVD from Andy
It's hard to top so succinct a thematic summation as a Jesuit in South America tied early to a cross and set adrift down the river towards his roaring, avalanching doom. Will Campbell - the quintessential liberal Presbyterian minister - must have wallowed in the ensuing melodrama, a weight that all but overwhelms the lurking beast of accountability and conscience. The animal's there; it just gets lost between so much green and so much ham. Sorry, Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro. Sorry, deep jungle. Sorry, gloomy world.
posted by NPK at 7:50 AM
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