I have to agree with most, that this movie was very well produced. The look and feel that Mel Gibson gave to this movie was very moving and well told. I think it is a good movie but it could have been better if were not for the captions. I understand the attempt to make it as authentic as possible and the feeling it extends by having the actors use the language of the times. However, by having captions throughout the entire movie made me feel like I was watching a foreign film. This, in my opinion, degraded the quality of the film by forcing the audience to continually look at the bottom of the screen. I am one that likes to view scenes closely and if you are the same then this film will leave you feeling like you may have missed something, especially at times when the dialog was long. I know that the "passion" in this movie would have come across a whole lot more and made a greater impact if english was spoken by all, especially the role of Jesus. When he spoke the most popular words that all Christians recognize it would have had a much deeper impact on us all if we heard it in our on tongue. Hearing him speak it in a language that 99% of us do not understand and then having to read it to know what he said just took away from any feeling the character was attempting to convey.
At first I was hoping that Mel would do like other films and start off with dialogs, switching to english very quickly. If I had known the entire film was captioned I would have waited for the DVD.
At first I was hoping that Mel would do like other films and start off with dialogs, switching to english very quickly. If I had known the entire film was captioned I would have waited for the DVD.