Mel Gibson's 'The Passion Of The Christ' is a film about the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The movie deals with Christ's sacrifice and love for mankind as well as his suffering and death. The film is in Aramaic and Latin language with English subtitles.

The movie picturizes Jesus being condemned to death. The two main players are Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor and Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest. Jesus is brought before Pilate, who listens to the accusations leveled against him by the Pharisees. Realizing he is confronting a political conflict, Pilate refers the matter to King Herod. But Herod returns Jesus to Pilate who gives the crowd a choice between Jesus and the criminal Barrabas. The crowd chooses to have Barrabas set free and to condemn Jesus. Under the pressure from the crowd, Pilate presents Jesus to the crowd and washes his hands off the entire dilemma, ordering his men to do as the crowd wishes. Caiaphas was also not sympathetic towards Christ.

Jesus is presented with the cross and is ordered to carry it through the streets of Jerusalem all the way to Golgotha. On Golgotha, Jesus is nailed to the cross and he dies on the cross.

The film is all about the message, the message that is the fundamental belief of Christianity and the messenger is Jesus. Mel Gibson has succeeded in delivering that message in graphics to millions of viewers. The movie sticks closely to accounts of the crucifixion as told in the New Testament. The movie graphically portray the intense suffering of Jesus. Even though Pilate ordered the crucifixion, he was forced to do so by the crowd of the Jews. The emphasis of the movie is about the suffering of Jesus and not who killed Jesus. But Gibson has removed the notorious line from Matthew 27:25 "His blood be on us, and on our children" from the subtitles, but not from the Aramaic dialogue. The movie has been presented as it was said in both 'The Book Of Isaiah' and 'The Gospel' accounts.

This is a must see movie. If you are a believer of Faith, you can see the love that God has for humanity. If you are not familiar with Jesus' life you should read the book of Luke from the Bible before seeing this film. The movie does not answer the question of who is responsible for Christ's death and why?. Jesus was a Jew who tried to replace the established religion of the time and set himself up as the Messiah, the Saviour, so who should be most interested to get rid of him?

According to Mel Gibson " The Passion is a film meant to inspire, not offend". After watching the film, Pope John Paul reportedly said " It Is As It Was", meaning that he believed the film to be accurate in its portrayal.

We rate this movie EXCELLENT.