I have viewed a lot of comments on here and what I don't understand is how can so many of you be so close-minded? Most of you are saying how bloody and violent it is. Well, ummm, HELLOOOOO, that's what it was like for Jesus back then. Also, he did that for us. He went through all that pain and suffering for US!! For those of you that say it lacks a plot, well apparently you saw some interest in the movie to see it for some reason. If you wanted to know more about it then how hard is it to get your hands on a bible and look up the story? Or, you could have called a local preacher and asked him where you could find the story in the bible. You all knew this was taken right from the bible just based on the title. If you knew nothing about it then look it up. Shoot, you even could have ran a search for it on a search engine. All you had to do was type in these simple words, "Story of Jesus Christ" or you could have used, "The death of Jesus" Honestly, how hard is that? If you would have done your homework about this film before seeing it you would have seen that everything in the film was dead on!! That includes all the blood and gore and all the pain and suffering. All of you people that said this film was crap what don't you go read that part of the bible and maybe then and only then you'll see it was written beautifully. Maybe after you do that you'll also realize that Jesus went through all that pain and suffering for YOU!! The reason he did all of that was because he wants you to live a life of eternity with him in paradise and not in hell. But, even if you don't decide to read the story and you decide to stay with your negative comments, I just hope that you will have a good explanation as to why you didn't believe when God asks as you go before him during judgment day.