Director Tom Clegg
Starring Sean Bean, Daragh O’Malley, Abigail Cruttenden
Rated M
Score 4/6

Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.

Sharpe’s Mission is a little different than the other installments of the series, this episode was not based on a novel by Bernard Cornwell. There is also a difference to how the actual story is told as this the only movie that has a prologue.
Europe at the end of the 18th and start of the 19th century must have been a terribly confusing place. There is a line from The Dark Knight that seems to some up this episode ‘you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain’. This form of revisionist history has occurred on a few occasions throughout the series.
Abigail Cruttenden gave a good performance as Sharpe’s wife Jane a woman who wasn’t given the chance to grow up and taught how to face all of life’s problems. I also enjoyed the conversation between Jane and Harris.