..this was a pleasure to watch. Two exceptional performances which were genuinely deeply moving, framed expertly within the context of the fairly recent selection of the Pope(s). Funny at times and also eye opening as an eduction in traditions and dogma V modernisation and reform of the Catholic Church. Whether you have faith or none at all, this is a truly heart warming, non-sentimental journey in the company of two of Britain's finest actors.
Reviews
2 Reviews
The Passion of the Christ
(2004)
Rocky for Christians
6 May 2004
Very poor.
Man gets brutally beaten for a couple of hours. Thin plot in between to stir up an audience.
This is what happens when the film industry puts such a story in the hands of a clumsy action hero. You get a Super Jesus, a man who can not only withstand being whipped by 280lb men with 2 inch thick batons for 10 minutes (enough to break a mere mortals back with a couple of blows), but then to take another 20 mins of whipping from whips that would strip the flesh off a pig in less than a minute. Oh, and then carry a tree sized cross up the side of a mountain whilst under a rain of blows until Carl Weathers is forced to help out and Burgess Meredith manages to get him back to the corner for a swill and spit, ready for the next round.
No wonder all the old people walked out of the cinema, they wanted THE story, with love and hope and a message, not an Unbreakable "bring it on" messiah, struggling to his feet time and time again for another whipping.
If Christians, and I am one, get a perverse pleasure from this then you really do need to question your faith.
The only thing it missed was Jesus shouting "Adrian I love you" over a trumpeted fanfare at the end.
Great cinematography in an absolutely rubbish film.
Man gets brutally beaten for a couple of hours. Thin plot in between to stir up an audience.
This is what happens when the film industry puts such a story in the hands of a clumsy action hero. You get a Super Jesus, a man who can not only withstand being whipped by 280lb men with 2 inch thick batons for 10 minutes (enough to break a mere mortals back with a couple of blows), but then to take another 20 mins of whipping from whips that would strip the flesh off a pig in less than a minute. Oh, and then carry a tree sized cross up the side of a mountain whilst under a rain of blows until Carl Weathers is forced to help out and Burgess Meredith manages to get him back to the corner for a swill and spit, ready for the next round.
No wonder all the old people walked out of the cinema, they wanted THE story, with love and hope and a message, not an Unbreakable "bring it on" messiah, struggling to his feet time and time again for another whipping.
If Christians, and I am one, get a perverse pleasure from this then you really do need to question your faith.
The only thing it missed was Jesus shouting "Adrian I love you" over a trumpeted fanfare at the end.
Great cinematography in an absolutely rubbish film.
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