Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

StrayFeral This is not your typical adventure movie. This is a marvelous drama about culture clash - the clash of civilization and nature. I will not spent time to describe everything here, because words are really not enough. Despite not being popular, this movie is among my favorites and a must-see I could say. Very very good story, amazing views, especially the aerial ones, wonderful music and great acting.Speaking of acting, everybody love Tom Berenger and Daryl Hannah, but I must give credit also to Aidan Quinn and especially Kathy Bates, whose acting in this movie I like the most.I am not aware who are the people playing the native tribes, but they deserve a great credit for good acting too.This movie is greatly underrated, so do not consider IMDb or another score and just go and see it.

mikequinlan61 If you read the bad reviews here, evidently backed up by a groundswell of poor ratings, you will see that the complaints about this film are basically limited to a certain distress over a less than glowing portrayal of evangelical missionaries (oh my!) and shock at the full frontal nudity of little boys (not to mention Tom Berenger). If you find this sort of thing troubling, then you should skip this powerful, well made, brilliantly acted and directed film about cultural terrorism.Berenger, Quinn, Hannah, Lithgow and Kathy Bates (another OMG nude scene) are riveting and little is spared in presenting this highly charged condemnation of arrogance and meddling in the name of religion.Open your mind and dig it! Great film.

Rodrigo Amaro Led by the director of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and starring an amazing cast, this epic of three hours goes to show something that some of us might have seen in another film. Better and shorter than "At Play in the Fields of the Lord", the awarded "The Mission" (1986) presented the conflict between Portuguese and Spanish explorers in the 18th Century for the control of lands in the Brazil-Paraguay areas and in the middle of all that there was the Catholic Church trying to convert the Indians who lived there, trying to save their innocent souls from hell. And there was also the ones who saw in these natives a way to explore their hard work, and many of these natives were killed simply because they refused to be part of this; they had their lifestyle and didn't need to contribute for the so-called progress brought by the white man. Babenco takes this premise and brings into the 20th Century; so, instead of European nations taking over the land there's corrupt businessmen who want to kill the natives to take their gold and the rubber that's present on the land. Their salvation is on the hands of American missionaries (John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Kathy Bates and Aidan Quinn) who are teaching the Catholicism to them; and a former mercenary (Tom Berenger) who is Half-Indian, and he decides to join the natives after being accepted by them as being a god that came out of the sky (after an incident where he jumped from his plane using a parachute).And do you think those missionaries learned the lesson about letting the Indians preserve their own culture instead of "planting" new concepts on their heads? Of course not! What makes this epic different from Roland Joffe's classic is not only the period both stories occur but also that in this film we have time to hear what the Indians have to say about the white man, that aspect was left out in 1986 film which caused some controversial to the film. Here, the tribe that was supposed to be destroyed by Berenger's character is completely opposed to relations with the missionaries, believing they bring diseases to their community (and they're right). However, if giving voice to the Indians was a good aspect that diverged from "The Mission" this film couldn't touch its greatness in terms of quality of the performances and the story, that goes overlong, with too much time to present to us how different the cultures are, that sort of thing made for the audience to relate with the missionary couple (Bates and Quinn) and their son (Niilo Kivirinta) trying to get used to the jungle. Joffé's film is a great History lesson; this one is a pure adventure.There's a sense that the film tries to please its audience so much but it doesn't work all so well with some spectacular sequences, the good music by Zbigniew Preisner and the stellar cast. The latter only having good performances from Tom Waits and the always excellent Nelson Xavier who plays a priest who understands better than anyone what happens in this danger zone. The famous stars from this, well, they act too much and you can't trust them while playing those characters. There's times when you see their faces and you'll go "Oh, it's that guy from that other movie!" They simply don't disappear into the character.I enjoyed this film because of its story and its message of learn to respect other cultures that aren't evolved like ours. Not to mention that even in its three hours the movie never gets boring, never gets uninteresting and actually goes quite fast.Problematic, flawed and not much full or rich in its content, "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" even with all these troubles, manages to be a visually beautiful film that deserves some recognition. Watch it more for its entertainment purposes than for its political and artistic contexts. 9/10

imbluzclooby This is a ten ton turkey. It's absolutely painfully bad. Watching all of those wannabe stars like John Lithgow, Tom Berenger, and Aidin Quinn overact brought pain to my eyes. Watching all of those Indians crawl and grovel around dragged on and on, making this seem like hours to squirm through. Kathy Bates looked like a complete fool when she apparently went mad and danced in those Indian garments half naked. How degrading and embarrassing is that! And Tom Berenger also suffered dearly. I'm surprised he agreed to do closeups in frontal nudity, because there wasn't much to look at. That Aidin Quinn character was just gross and pathetic. Watching him with those nerdy spectacles, overgrown and dirty fingernails and ugh! He was gross. And the overacting to top it off. Darrell Hannah just looked like some lanky nymph prancing around in the nude. The result of this intentionally serious film is that every character looks foolish. If they were smart, they would try to forget this disaster as much as possible. This should be renamed "At Play in the Fields of the Bored".