The "Times" reviewer writes a "slammer" on Mel's movie. Here is just the opening and the URL
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST'
Good and Evil Locked in Violent Showdown
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 25, 2004
Newmarket Films/Icon Productions
Jim Caviezel as Jesus Christ.
A collection of articles and commentary about Mel Gibson's film.
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Jim Caviezel portrays Jesus in his final brutal hours in Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," which departs in tone from past films on the subject.
here is a prophetic episode of "The Simpsons" in which the celebrity guest star Mel Gibson, directing and starring in a remake of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," enlists the help of Homer Simpson, who represents the public taste (or lack of it). Homer persuades Mr. Gibson to change the picture's ending, replacing James Stewart's populist tirade with an action sequence, a barrage of righteous gunfire that leaves the halls of Congress strewn with corpses. The audience flees the theater in disgust. I thought of Homer more than once, with an involuntary irreverence conditioned by many years of devotion to "The Simpsons," as Mr. Gibson presented his new movie, "The Passion of the Christ," to carefully selected preview audiences across the land, making a few last-minute cuts, and then taking to the airwaves to promote and defend the film. It opens on Wednesday nationwide.
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