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      Sharpe's Mission

      1996 1h 40m Adventure List
      Reviews 80% 250+ Ratings Audience Score A British rifleman (Sean Bean) helps a brave colonel (Mark Strong) go behind French lines to blow up a gunpowder cache. Read More Read Less

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      A A small budget, huge impression! iconic show! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/29/22 Full Review Audience Member the formula is starting to wear a bit thin. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Sean Bean does the impossible. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I've become a bit of a fan of the eponymous Sharpe and his daring escapades, quite often behind enemy lines. With his gruff northern ways and rag-tag bunch of chosen men he is quite the hero. This is one of the better ones in my opinion; a nice bad guy played by Mark Strong with some good explosions and a comedy death. Sharpe is tasked with blowing up a munitions store deep in enemy territory.There are some quite amusing scenes when a poet/artist from a newspaper back home joins the group and attempts to seduce Jane Sharpe and a masked officer finds love with a gypsy girl. The main story of espionage and betrayal is enough for me - the rest was a little superficial and detracted more from the overall feel rather than enhancing it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Because my Netflix jacket wasn't properly labelled, I accidentally watched this episode (#10) before watching the previous one (#9). So, I was at a bit of a loss regarding his domestic life (obviously, Sharpe got married, a second time, in #9). I could have done without the gypsy subplot, though. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member NOT based on a book by Cornwell (even if some of those earlier movies bear little or no resemblance to their source novel - I'm looking at you, Sharpe's Gold!), with a pre-LOTR Sean Bean in the role that he would make his own. As a tele-movie, it suffers somewhat from the limitations inherent with that format: I've always maintained that I would love to see what they could do with a bigger Hollywood budget (actually be able to have Battalions look like Battalions, for instance!). Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A British rifleman (Sean Bean) helps a brave colonel (Mark Strong) go behind French lines to blow up a gunpowder cache.
      Director
      Tom Clegg
      Producer
      Muir Sutherland
      Genre
      Adventure
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jun 28, 2004
      Runtime
      1h 40m