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List Price: $34.98Amazon.com's Price: $22.99 You Save: $11.99 (34%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0024543565819
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 5960
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fantastic movie
The Passion of the Christ (2004) is a great movie by Mel Gibson. He personally contributed close to 40 million dollars for this film. It depicts the final twelve hours of Jesus' life. It's a movie with a two hour ordeal of Jesus' torture. It is a must see.
If you're so inclined, I found this beautiful new book about Jesus, faith, God and what we will do in the after-life entitled "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone" by John H. Eagan. I just ... Read More
Rating: - THE PASSION IS INSPIRED, AFFECTING AND SOMETIMES DEMANDING. (it won't please everyone, but it is a masterful film)
Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (Widescreen 9Edition) (2004) is obviously a film about the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the several hours leading up to the event. The movie's title explains it. The American Heritage Dictionary (Second College Edition) lists as one of it's definitions of Passion:
5. Passion. a. The sufferings of Christ in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion. b. A narrative of this, as in one of the Gospels, or a musical setting or ... Read More
Rating: - NICE SALE
I WANTED THIS MOVIE FOR XMAS, BUT WAS A LITTLE SHORT ON CASH.
THE QUALITY OF THE DVD WAS EXCELLENT ,AND THE PRICE WAS EXTREMELY
INVITING.
Rating: - The passion of the Christ on blu ray
I have remarked to my father several times that this movie should be on Blu-ray. I am elated that this film is finally in high definition. This movie is one of the most technically stunning films I have ever seen. The passion is perfect for Blu-ray, this is a must own for people who like Blu-ray, Christians, and film buffs.
Rating: - What's the Beef with the Passion?
[Whether you like the film will depend on multiple factors that should be covered by the 2000-some reviews below. On this Blu-Ray release, you will hate it or love it in the finest video quality possible -- a marked improvement over the DVD.]
A film has managed to spark thought--or gut reactions, at any rate--among Americans of all ilks like few before. Everyone in the media and intelligentsia, movie reviewer or not, feels obliged to give us his or her impressions. And the impressions they ... Read More
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