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The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition) |  | Director: Mel Gibson
Actors: James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2096 reviews
Sales Rank: 3892
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2222992D
UPC: 024543129912
EAN: 0024543129912
ASIN: B00028HBKC
Theatrical Release Date: February 25, 2004
Release Date: August 31, 2004
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After all the controversy and rigorous debate has subsided, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, "Gibson's Folly" is an act of personal bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $25-30 million production to preserve his artistic goal of creating the Passion of Christ ("Passion" in this context meaning "suffering") as a quite literal, in-your-face interpretation of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus, scripted almost directly from the gospels (and spoken in Aramaic and Latin with a relative minimum of subtitles) and presented as a relentless, 126-minute ordeal of torture and crucifixion. For Christians and non-Christians alike, this film does not "entertain," and it's not a film that one can "like" or "dislike" in any conventional sense. (It is also emphatically not a film for children or the weak of heart.) Rather, The Passion is a cinematic experience that serves an almost singular purpose: to show the scourging and death of Jesus Christ in such horrifically graphic detail (with Gibson's own hand pounding the nails in the cross) that even non-believers may feel a twinge of sorrow and culpability in witnessing the final moments of the Son of God, played by Jim Caviezel in a performance that's not so much acting as a willful act of submission, so intense that some will weep not only for Christ, but for Caviezel's unparalleled test of endurance. Leave it to the intelligentsia to debate the film's alleged anti-Semitic slant; if one judges what is on the screen (so gloriously served by John Debney's score and Caleb Deschanel's cinematography), there is fuel for debate but no obvious malice aforethought; the Jews under Caiaphas are just as guilty as the barbaric Romans who carry out the execution, especially after Gibson excised (from the subtitles, if not the soundtrack) the film's most controversial line of dialogue. If one accepts that Gibson's intentions are sincere, The Passion can be accepted for what it is: a grueling, straightforward (some might say unimaginative) and extremely violent depiction of the Passion, guaranteed to render devout Christians speechless while it intensifies their faith. Non-believers are likely to take a more dispassionate view, and some may resort to ridicule. But one thing remains undebatable: with The Passion of the Christ, Gibson put his money where his mouth is. You can praise or damn him all you want, but you've got to admire his chutzpah. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
THE FILM FOCUSES ON THE LAST 12 HOURS OF JESUS' LIFE & BEGINS IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES WHERE JESUS HAS GONE TO PRAY AFTER THE LAST SUPPER. BETRAYED BY JUDAS, HE IS THEN ARRESTED & TAKEN WITHIN THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM WHERE THE LEADERS CONFRONT JESUS & HIS TRIAL RESULTS IN A CONDEMNATION TO DEATH.
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 A Religion that prevented its flock from doing the worst horrors in this world September 10, 2010
Phoenix (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a religion that never helped its adherents to be moral. No wonder they have done these.
- Inquisition in Spain and Goa
- Crusades
- Ethnic cleansing of American Indians
- SIavery
- Lynchings
- The Anti Chinese league of the Americas
- Jim Crowe
- The HoIocaust. Read the antisemitic rantings of Martin Luther the founder of the Protestant movement that was the impetus for the Holocaust.
- Separate churches for blacks and whites in the bible belt.
In today's world the vast majority of so the called christians are fortunately social christians (church for weddings and funerals only). These social christians use their own moral compass and reject all the vile doctrine of this godforsaken religion called christianity.
 POWERFUL! September 6, 2010
A. Jones (Ocean Springs, Ms. USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Believer or unbeliever should watch it to see how He died for our sins. It is a sysmbol of His love for us. It made us not wanting do bad stuffs but to repent the sins. When you see it, you probably weep and look back to the terribly things you did in past
If you understand? August 21, 2010
Dennis Hubbard (Ohio)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you understand why Jesus the Christ died for us, and want to be a part of his Kingdom. You will want this movie.
If you can't understand why Jesus the Christ died, or don't belive in his Kingdom. You won't want this movie.
If you can't see Love in His Blood it won't mean anything to you.
I see the Love ,and Hope you will to.
 ninetynine August 15, 2010
E. moczydlowski (usa)
not much to say
another attempt to make a movie about the life of jesus christ.
sub titled while a foreign language is spoken.
if you really want to see a depiction of the life of jesus christ then i think you will probably enjoy this film.
otherwise you might be bored.
who are any of you? August 11, 2010
Colin J. Shirk (iowa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
all of the negative reviews i have read about this movie are saying, "too much blood and violence".... "the bible doesn't say Jesus was lashed 80 times it was only 40 times".... if there is one thing i have learned through 12 years of private, catholic schools... is that the bible is not 100% correct 100% of the time... NO ONE ON EARTH knows how Jesus was actually treated or how bad it actually was... so before you go bashing Gibson for making this movie.... maybe you should think about the fact that this movie is based off of a book that was written thousands of years ago.... this day in age, a lot of stuff is exaggerated, and a lot of stuff is made to seem like less of a "big deal"... whose to say the same didnt happen back then? Whats going to happen in thousands of years when someone finds a Harry Potter book in some rubble? the point is, not a single person in the ENTIRE world has any sort of right what-so-ever to say that this is "not how it happened" or Mel Gibson was in the wrong making this movie. This is Mel Gibsons re-imagining of what happened... This is an amazing movie that brings (parts of) the bible to the mainstream... opening a lot of peoples eyes. who are you to say it is wrong? and to the people who are talking bad about this movie because of Mel Gibsons personal life.... i thought God teaches everyone forgiveness.... that there is no judge but "the" judge... i didnt know his personal life was reflected in the movie.... but overall... amazing, moving, visually stunning, all around great movie. 5 stars!
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