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The Passion Of The Christ Movie Rating:  Dismal | |
| After months of controversy, Mel Gibson's retelling of the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ (Jim Caviezel) arrives with all the subtlety of a hammer blow. Gibson displays a connoisseur's eye for torture in this brutally violent, sometimes stomach-turning affair, with excruciating images ranging from flagellation to nails being driven into flesh. | |
| With the emphasis on death rather than resurrection, this is far darker than most biblical dramas, and Gibson's view of humanity - here in the guise of bloodthirsty Jews and psychopathic Romans - could scarcely be more misanthropic. It is hard to imagine what the apparently devout Gibson was thinking in mounting this handsome, but dismal production, which is not a celebration of Christ's life, but a numbing dirge. |
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