horrible

Rating: 1/10 (16 August 2013)

The Mission tells the story of the effects of the Treaty of Madrid on native South American tribes and the Jesuits working to convert them. While this is a solid plot for a film, Roland Joffé displays the worst directing I have ever seen-a monkey could have done better-making this film complete trash.
One of the more palpable failures was the sound track, a simple oboe tune that plays throughout the entirety of the film, which threatens to cause even the most energetic audiences to fall into a coma, the only purpose this film serves is putting hyper children into a deep sleep. This film does not display an actual antagonist but rather has characters that reinforce the idea of the unseen malicious presence of Portugal when done correctly this plot works well, but the poor execution and lack of explanation only serve in making the film more confusing. Even though this film was released in 1986 the effects are dreadful from bullets that leave a large circular hole when they enter with no exit wound nor blood splatter to actors looking down at the arrows already protruding from their chest as if they had just noticed them. The dreadful effects are only made more prevalent by the terrible acting watching these actors attempt to perform an emotional scene made me want to cry.
I am disappointed that a film with so much potential was produced in such a disgraceful manor.