Mel Gibson’s passionate, personal, and visceral take on the final twelve hours of Christ’s life on Earth is a powerful and provocative take on the passion play.
This tale of one boy’s life was shot over the course of 12 years where we watch star Ellar Coltrane grow up on camera. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawks costar.
The stocky Thai stuntman turned action hero has an impressive physique, a steel snap to his delivery, and a gymnastic prowess to his style, and it’s all on display in this endearingly naïve martial arts adventure.
Kinji Fukasaku, the madman of Japanese yakuza cinema, directs this gleefully gruesome splatter satire of teenage nihilism, adult paranoia, and social sadism.