Fantastic!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is probably the most uncompromising film that gives us an insight about the last days of Christ, his doubts, his temptations and his suffering. Alone the scene were the mother must watch her son being brutally whipped by Roman soldiers is heartbreaking and imo the best scene ever made regarding the last days and the suffering of Christ (no matter if you believe in him being the son of God or not).In my opinion this is more a movie about how much pain a human being can bear and how cruel and/or mindless people can act to another fellow human being, as a movie about a religion, of religions or theological questions.Great directing, great acting, great visuals, great story - imo the greatest masterpiece by Mel Gibson made/directed.

I found this tedious, to say the least. Incredibly slow-moving and a big talkie. There were no surprises, no suspense, hardly any action, and the story was predictable. As the logline states, the film depicts the final twelve hours... Well, indeed, it felt like the film ran for 12 hours and it was torture all the way!

Movie Review: "The Passion of The Christ" (2004)Director Mel Gibson gives the the "New Testament" a perspective of ultra-violence, only late director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) could have imagined in his life-time, where actor Jim Caviezel as historic, eventually fictitious figure of Jesus of Nazareth, must endure "The Impossible" of carrying a wooden cross in size of an contemporary automobile to a mountain top only to be crucified under "Roman Justice" in the year 33 AD, when supporting actress with beautiful, yet desperate face, Monica Bellucci begs and cries for mercy as legendary biblical prostitute "Maria Magdalene", the director pulls every strings of graphic violent visual to arrest the audience for two hours throughout - nevertheless to believe it or not - as "The Passion of the Christ" becomes full-frontal Hollywood hardcore entertainment.Copyright 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

It has been 14 years now, and this is my first review. After seeing it tonight in honor of Jesus' resurrection and Easter, I bump my rating from 8 to 9. I thought the film was far to brutal, and violent at first watch. I remember so many of my fellow church members were in utter shock. No one could speak. Many were bawling. It was almost as stunning to see the audience reaction, as it was to see the film. Thinking about it, and seeing it again makes me realize the brutality, and violence was a necessary cinematic theme. I mean Jesus was absorbing ALL of man's sins. The film was beautiful, and terrifying at the same time. That is quite an accomplishment by Gibson. Of course the beauty lies in the scenes between Jesus, and Mary, and Jesus and his disciples. The whole cast was excellent especially Morgenstern as Mary, and Caviezel as Jesus. As a Christian, I feel the film was wonderful, and quite devout. We need more Christian films like this, As a film lover, the film was excellent in nearly every respect