There is plenty of things to enjoy about the film. The set design, costumes and make up are just fantastic. It is really quite something unique to be pushed as far as the Passion pushes you. It just is badly paced I thought, and didnt do anything that really needed to be done. I mean, everyone knows the story of the Bible, even the film assumes this as it doesnt bother explaining the events, so why just tell it as the Bible does. I think the story of Christ needs a treatment in a film that will shed some new light or present an original POV, like Scorceses "Last Temptation of Christ" did.

But, then again, the film has raked the cash in big-time.

I actually wanted to see it the weekend it came out, but found that I wasn't prepared to sit through what I heard was a very gory film. Now I'm a big fan or horror films, so I'm generally totally fine with blood and guts, but being Catholic, seeing the object of my faith getting knocked on for a couple of hours was a bit more than I was ready for. I want to eventually catch it on the "small" screen.