Toronto Star review

This is pretty much the most negative review I've seen so far, and the first from Canada, from the Toronto Star:

A dark and bloody spectacle
As sex is to the body in hardcore porn, violence is to the ruin of the body of Christ in The Passion
GEOFF PEVERE

. . . . Even from my position of relative spiritual impoverishment, I have no doubt that Gibson believes completely and utterly in the divinity of his mission. From precisely the same position however, I also believe, just as completely and utterly, The Passion Of The Christ to be a work of fundamentalist pornography. What graphic sex is to the use of the body in hardcore porno, graphic violence is to destruction of the body of Christ in this Passion . . . .