Passion of the Christ, yes. I think what Mel Gibson was trying to achieve here is what film-historians would call "splatter-comedy" like early Peter Jackson. A bit like "Life of Brian" meets "Hostel". Did you notice the three guys dangling from crosses at the end of the movie? An almost identical scene is in that Monty-Python-movie. A coincidence? I hardly think so. Wow, and all those lowly Romans were so delightfully over the top, only picking at the guy who looked like Jesus, although there where other criminals around who could do with a bit of torturing as well. It almost seemed as if they wanted to turn that thorn-crowned-guy into a martyr. Alas, a lot of the jokes went by me as my DVD-player flunked the sub-titles. And in the end I guess I would have laughed more if the whole film wouldn't have been an attempt to "justify" the genocide of the Jewish people (especially in the German holocaust), as Mel himself admitted freely after having one beer to many.
Review of The Passion of the Christ
