Late-but-great Passion Review

Okay, so this is now months out of date, but it's such a great rant I just couldn't resist. Fans of The Passion of the Christ should probably stop reading now. For the rest of you, to whet your appetite, an excerpt regarding the central half-hour-long beating scene:

You catch glimpses of this revolting cartoonishness through barely parted fingers and you think, goddammit, there goes half an hour of my vital life force that I will require much sex and vodka and Buddhism to recover. And you realize, with a sort of perfect and holy divine clarity, that Mel Gibson is utterly, thoroughly insane.

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