![]() The acting didn't fare much better either, Jesus was well portrayed but everyone else I couldn't give a tuppence about. Never once was I sympathetic or moved, any time I cried it was with disgust. ![]() The pace is meandering and slow, the dialogue aims to move and shock but does neither because it was so hackneyed and emotionally The Passion of the Christ is manipulative and perhaps hypocritical too. The story is never compelling either, it is very slow paced and is vastly overshadowed by the images every time it tries to get somewhere, while Gibson's direction is somewhat self-indulgent. ![]() I accept it was like that, but seriously some of it is sickening. ![]() But it is so brutal and sadistic in its violence I actually had to watch the film in chunks because of being sick in the toilet for what seemed like every twenty minutes. Granted, the cinematography and visuals are excellent and the score is great. Before I get flamed for this review, I really tried to like The Passion of the Christ. Jesus, played with inspiring sincerity by James Caviezel (Frequency, The Thin Red Line). Much has been made of The Passion's adherence to Scripture, but in the rough cut shown to pastors and ministry leaders a month before the film's release, it was clear that Gibson often goes beyond the text. Has Gibson found a way to baptize, as it were, the sadistic or masochistic impulses of his other films? Is it possible he is indulging himself under the cover of religious piety?Īt times it does seem so. But The Passion also dwells, at considerable length, on the physical pain inflicted on Jesus. In some ways, The Passion seems like a repudiation of much of his career to date: last year, Gibson, a traditionalist Catholic whose faith has surfaced in recent films like Signs and We Were Soldiers, told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly he wanted to promote faith, hope, love, and especially forgiveness through this film. In Braveheart, the 1995 film for which he won the Best Director Oscar, Gibson kept the fatal wounds inflicted on William Wallace and his wife just out of frame, to spare his audience the full brutality suffered by these heroes, but he reveled in the gory details with which Wallace executed his personal enemies. It is certainly the most devout, though at first it seems odd that Mel Gibson should be the one to produce, write, and direct a film about the Prince of Peace.įrom the buddy-cop Lethal Weapon franchise to revisionist epics like The Patriot, Gibson has specialized in playing violent action heroes who take bloody revenge for the deaths of their wives, children, and girlfriends. ![]() The Passion of The Christ may be the most artistically and commercially ambitious feature film about Jesus to come out of Hollywood since the 1960s. ![]()
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