On Sunday night, I saw the Passion of the Christ. I thought about writing a movie review about the film, but words eluded me when trying to describe it. Basically, I’m speechless. For the first time ever, I don’t have a cohesive opinion about something. Paramedics please attend to my mother who is now in a state of shock from the above revelation.

Lots of people are familiar the basic storyline, and the ending is pretty well known so I’ll leave that to everyone else to discuss.

Below is a short laundry list of details about the film that struck me, in no particular order:

1) Blood. There’s a lot of it. How much? Lots. More than any film ever? Not sure, but it’s lots.
2) Violence. I’ve seen more violent films, but this one wins hand down for the length of the torture sequences.
3) Product placement. There were no corporate sponsors for this film, thus there were no products.
4) Trailers. No one wanted their film to appear before this one, so there are no trailers.
5) Latin and Aramaic. Boy those languages are clunky. They sound clunky 2000 years out of context too. Listening to them while trying to follow along with the subtitles was beyond clunky.
6) Romans. They had good haircuts.

In the end, all I know about this moive that lots more people will see it.