Mel has the capability to make good movies. War movies seem to be his strength (Although I do not watch regular secular big budget popular movies anymore). When I first seen the Passion in theaters it was impactful and impressive to me at that time in my life, but I honestly did not really remember much from it. I bought it on DVD and I tried several times to watch it but I could never get into it. It seemed extremely boring and slow in the beginning and I wanted to fast forward through it. When I skipped to the scene where Jim Caviezel was preaching at the sermon on the mount, he seemed kind of ridiculous or silly looking and so I shut it off. I think at this point in my life, my tastes in movies had changed and I became more critical in the films I liked (Especially when I started to study script writing and film making). I also did not help that I did not like Caviezel‘s reading of Jesus in the Word of Promise Dramatized Audio Bible, either. Jim Caviezel‘s reading of Jesus in that audio bible was very dry and monotonous (with no range of emotion). He was just reading words on the page with no real feeling or heart behind it.
I don’t honestly remember much of the movie, and I have no real interest in watching it again (Seeing Mel felt he had to show the unnecessary brutality of Christ’s being whipped and crucified to the most farthest extreme).
While I do not own movies that have Jesus in them, and while I strive to not promote movies that have our Lord depicted in them (because it is creating a false idol image of Jesus), I would not mind at least seeing such films only once if it looks like they are not perverting the Scriptures too much (Which is unlike the Chosen TV series which perverts the Word of God endlessly). So depending on the trailer, I may see the Passion sequel.