| Gibson insists he's just giving us a literal retelling of the Gospels, said Susan Thistlethwaite in the Chicago Tribune, but that's a convenient cop-out. Gibson was free to choose among the Gospels' differing versions of Christ's life and death. Strangely, he's given us Jesus as he'd appear in Gibson's Braveheart film-a bloody "action hero" who can take all the punishment his evil enemies dish out. Where are Jesus' teachings on love? Where is his ministry to the sick and the poor? I have no doubt that Gibson's Christian fervor is sincere, said Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. But his version of Christianity is angry, divisive, and "profoundly disheartening." It will pit his fellow true believers against everyone else. Watch: Every debate over this film will end with each side muttering, "You just don't get it."
That's true--you just don't get it, said Ramesh Ponmuru in National Review. Gibson did not make this film to convert secular disbelievers. Indeed, "the movie may make Christianity seem more, rather than less, alien and strange." The Passion is for those of us who already believe, and who want to feel our faith even more deeply. The film's central message is that "we all are guilty for the Crucifixion," and Christ's terrible sacrifice. Source= WEEK
There will always be critics/viewers who will go against the film and those who will praise the film. In the end, what matters is that such film had been produced for all interested viewers to go watch.
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