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The Passion of the Christ (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 260
Fresh: 130
Rotten:130
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: The graphic details of Jesus' torture make the movie tough to sit through and obscure whatever message it is trying to convey.
Theatrical Release: Feb 25, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $370,203,632
Synopsis: The Passion of The Christ is a film about the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film opens in the Garden of Olives (Gethsemane) where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Jesus resists Satan's temptations. Betrayed... [More]
Starring: James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci, Mattia Sbragia
Director: Mel Gibson
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Reviews for The Passion of the Christ
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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03/16/04
Top Critic Irrespective of your religious beliefs, Mel Gibson’s brutal depiction of the most renowned story of sacrifice and love is distressing to the very core.
02/24/04
Top Critic All [Gibson has] done...is to trade in the Hollywood conventions of yesteryear for the crasser, more bloodthirsty conventions of today.
05/17/08
I emerged from The Passion of the Christ depressed and spiritually bruised.
03/05/08
More sensational than spiritual, this blood-soaked take on the Stations of the Cross retells the Gospels as a horror movie. You can't help asking: where has all the love gone?
03/05/08
If I were a Christian, I'd be appalled to have this primitive and pornographic bloodbath presume to speak for me.
03/05/08
For a filmmaker who wants to create an adaptation of the story of Jesus, Mel Gibson's motives seem ironically impure.
07/14/07
Easily the most controversial film of the year, Gibson's fil is a visually bold, relentlessly violent epos that suffers from a shallow, undernourished narrative and no characterizations to speak of.
10/05/06
By giving us the feeling of experiencing Jesus' thoughts, and by making us privy to his prayers, The Passion draws us toward Christ's full humanity like no film before.
09/27/06
Gibson's passion is all over this film...but his resorting to mawkish, superficial tactics blows the tone off-course from time to time
09/11/06
Mr. Gibson has plucked at the rawest of nerves yet I cannot blame him. He is expressing himself through the medium of film and using the text of his bible as the basis.
08/16/06
No voy siquiera a pretender revisar esta película como cualquier otra, porque no lo es.
05/06/06
A tormented movie about torment; loopy, over-reaching and occasionally suspicious. Simultaneously, it is a daring artistic endeavour.
04/01/06
Top Critic Incredibly intense, unflichingly realistic and powerfully moving...One of the all-time great cinematic achievements...God bless Mel Gibson.
12/20/05
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