The two principal actors, Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, work hard to animate their parts. But there is little to do. The Mission is probably the first film in which De Niro gives a bland, uninteresting performance.

| Mar 26, 2009

| Original Score: A- | Oct 29, 2008

The Mission manages to be both magnificent and curiously uninvolving, a buddy movie played in soutanes.

| Feb 9, 2006

A singularly lumpy sort of movie.

| May 20, 2003

"The Mission" is everything a movie should be -- magnificently produced, epic in scope, serious in theme -- everything, that is, but good.

| Jan 1, 2000

"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.

| Jan 1, 2000

There isn't a moment in The Mission that is not watchable, but the moments don't add up to a coherent narrative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000