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The Passion of the Nutjob

February 25, 2004

Well, the New York Times review of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" indicates that the great big Jesus movie wavers between "horror-movie suspense" and "slasher-film dread," though I'm guessing neither of those quotes will be featured on the movie poster.

A.O. Scott, the reviewer, had a couple more interesting things to say about it, namely that "the troubling implications of the film do not arise primarily from its religious agenda: an extreme, traditionalist Roman Catholicism that has not prevented 'The Passion' from resonating, oddly enough, with many evangelical Protestants," but from Gibson's position as "a connoisseur of violence...it will be amusing to see some of the same scolds who condemned Mr. Tarantino's 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1' sing the praises of 'The Passion of the Christ.'"

It sure will.

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