Another review of 'The Passion of the Christ'

From Mennonite Weekly--Ultraviolent 'Passion' an incomplete picture by Burton Buller of Mennonite Media:

The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's hell-fire and brimstone sermon on celluloid, falls far short of making a case for why I want to be a follower of Jesus.

The film is a violent blood-fest extraordinaire. As well it should be. Ancient torture rituals were not pretty sights.

Gibson venerates the broken body of Christ but says little about the point of the brokenness: the resurrection. His theological viewpoint demands that lots of blood flow from Christ's wounds because there needs to be enough blood to cover all of humanity's many and grievous sins. Told in this way, the salvation story is incomplete.

What turns me on to Christ is the new life salvation demands. New life is embodied not in Christ's beaten and broken body but in his triumph over death. Either Gibson doesn't understand that part of the salvation story, or he forgot to include more than a single nod to it.