Who is the real Mel Gibson? A devout Catholic full of love, or an entertainer addicted to gore, blood, torture and violence, not only in this movie, but throughout his whole career?Well, it's up to you to decide. Unfortunately, he chose to display violence once more, this time centering his blood-lust around the Christ, to a point that, around the middle of the movie, some viewers were already num to the violence being shown on the screen, in such a way that whatever message this director was trying to pass was lost.It's a shame that such a budget by such a famous actor / director was wasted in telling one of the most important and beautiful stories of the world in this fashion...