I'm still working on this review, but thought I'd stick up what I've got so far. FYI, the Wichita woman who died during the film this morning was not in the same theatre as me. I went an hour later at a different location of the same chain.

Details will follow, but Roger Friedman's review of 'The Passion' is the biggest piece of shit I've seen so far.

Many reviews I've seen also include false assumptions or statements from folks who simply don't understand whats going on. Here's a classic example:

"It made no attempt to explain why Jesus was going through this ... I think everybody walked out hardened."

Thats just not true. The opening scene of the movie is about Jesus taking of humanity's sin to himself, and as he dies he says something like 'it is done' in reference to the forgiveness of sins. As for why those that killed him were doing it - it doesn't really matter what their motivations were. Jesus says that he is laying down his life - nobody is taking his life from him. The reasons they used to kill him were irrelevant - he was letting himself be killed to forgive sins.

This movie presupposes that the audience has a good bit of knowledge of Jesus already - and why shouldn't it. Jesus is arguably the most famous person in the history of the world, and this movie was not meant to be his life story. It covers his last day on earth, and nothing more. It doesn't provide background, it doesn't introduce the characters, and its not preachy - doesn't try and persuade the audience that Jesus was right, or the Messiah, or anything. It simply lays out what happened to him on that day, what he said, and what others said to and about him.

More later...

UPDATE: No more from me. Its taken me so long to get some free time I've kind of lost interest.

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