Two More Passion Reviews

• From MCJ's Christopher Johnson:

  But if you know that you are a sinner and that what Christ did for you on the Cross is the only chance you have for life, then if you can see it(and I judge no one's faith based on whether they can watch The Passion or not), this will be the most terrible and most beautiful movie you will ever see. The Passion is the single greatest piece of Christian visual art anybody has ever made. Or is ever likely to make.

• From Mark Shea:
  

  First: Thanks, Mel, for having the great courage to make this film. It was a profoundly *manly* thing to do and has given us a portrayal of Jesus that is, in the very best sense of the word, the most masculine Jesus ever committed to celluloid. Interestingly, several men I have talked to have spoken of the film in that way as well. The sense of sheer *warfare* that permeates the film is overwhelming. And it is deeply and profoundly warfare with powers and principalities, not with flesh and blood. Jesus has no enmity to his human adversaries. He prays for them repeatedly. But his hostility to the devil is implacable, utter, and steely. Indeed, if I were the devil, I would quail in terror at what is, for Lucifer, the single most frightening moment in the film: the look of Resolve on the face of the Risen Christ in the final moments of the film. Satan has done his worst. Now it's Time to wrest the entire cosmos away from him.