THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004)

I watched this again Saturday night and was, yet again, very moved by it.

I'm not going to give this film a "star" rating because, quite frankly, I'm not sure if this film moves me because of my religious beliefs or because it's well made. I'm just not sure.

I thought the use of flashbacks was brilliant because just when you couldn't take another second of the violence, the film faded into the past to give you a break. The actor who played the Devil was brilliant.

Jim Caviezel was very sympathetic as Christ. And I love the fact that Jesus was finally cast with dark hair and dark eyes, because in all likelyhood, he probably looked a lot more like that than like Jeffrey Hunter.

I still feel that JESUS OF NAZARETH, the Franco Zeffirelli directed masterpiece of a mini-series, was the greatest film ever made on the life of Christ, but I'll list Gibson's Passion as a close second, even if it's more than likely due to my religious beliefs.