''The Passion of the Christ'' is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus' final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it. Mr. Gibson has constructed an unnerving and painful spectacle that is also, in the end, a depressing one.
from the ny times.
i liked this review a lot and found it to match my feelings mostly. for those of you who were legitimately curious when you commented on my previous journal.. read this..
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07EFD6143CF936A15751C0A9629C8B63