I decided to re watch this movie, thinking that my dislike for it was due to an immaturity, lack of sensibility and buying too much into the contemporary intellectual consensus.
On paper the film sounds amazing, the idea of a gruesome, gritty depiction of the last hours of Jesus with nothing but Aramaic and latin sounds cool.
Sadly I was very disappointed. The movie is utterly boring, a bunch of 20 minutes long scenes of Jesus being whipped and then falling in slow motion. Very claustrophobic close up cinematography all the time, that never allows you to see the background, the location of a scene or the full body of actors in a composed scene; and while some might claim this is intentional, it is also not well done, and it gives an American or even tv advertising feeling.
When Jesus was carrying the cross and every time he would stop, fall, be whipped, and the movie would drag for another 20 minutes with people doing dramatic fades to heavy music, I couldn't stop wondering how there are people out there who likes such a movie.
What is Bernd opinion of it?