Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

MartinHafer "The Missionary" is a single-joke film...and that joke isn't particularly funny. It's a real shame, as I've loved "Monty Python" for decades...but also realize that the solo projects by the various members of the group have varied tremendously in quality...and this is among the least of the projects I've seen by any of them.The story begins in Africa. Michael Palin plays the Reverend Fortescue and his work there has apparently been successful. So successful, it seems that they have a new job for him--working with 'fallen women' in London. But he needs to raise money--and he turns to a horny rich woman (Maggie Smith)...and he seems to have forgotten his vows. In fact, once he begins working with the prostitutes he forgets his vows again and again and again...with all the women. In the meantime, he learns that the rich lady is planning on murdering her husband...and this coincides with his marriage to an incredibly frigid and uninteresting women. What's next? As I said above, the film just isn't funny. Palin's acting is just fine but the film will offend many and bore the rest. It's a clear misfire and isn't all that interesting.

graham_525 I really like this film. It's just one of those films that bring a smile to your face. There are some fantastic moments: Roland Culver dying while Michael Palin obliviously continues with his speech, Michael Hordern as the butler who doesn't know where he's going, Michael Palin being propositioned by a lady of the night (and accepting). It's just a very charming film.One thing that did strike me about it though is how we find situations acceptable if they are transported into the past. I don't think it would be considered very funny to make a film in which a Reverend lets three child prostitutes into his bed at once if it was set in today's London. We can laugh about the hypocritical sexual shenanigans of the Victorians though. Paedophilia's funny as long as it's in the distant past.

robert-turner-1 Oh dear. This is a film which, contrary to initial expectations, bombed at the Box Office. Most Python fans have never heard of it, and on TV it is quietly tucked away in the late night schedules;normally sandwiched between a documentary on walruses and a Czechoslovakian cartoon.Supposedly a "parody" on Edwardian moral values, this film looks as if it was scripted and performed by sexually frustrated public school boys (and girls). The comedy is non existent and Michael Palin has a very haunted look about him - perhaps wishing, like the audience, that he was doing something slightly more rewarding.If you're still curious to know why this movie is so incredibly bad. Keep an eye out for on the TV.Set the video, and tape for a rainy day - a very rainy day!

Smalling-2 In England in 1906, a young reverend, with a sense of vocation and just before marriage, is entrusted to open a house of refuge for fallen ladies of East End. He is then seduced by the grateful girls and a witty, love-seeking lady nob, who is ready to support the institute.A fitfully amusing, crisply acted, often sophisticated period comedy whose central conception - prostitutes do what they do for pleasure - is slightly absurd to say the least. Most of its fun is provided by the garnish.