Damn you, Evil Milkman! You ruined the ending for me!!!
Just kidding.
On a serious note, while I thought that graphically the movie was incredible, I'm now convinced that Mel Gibson couldn't direct his way out of a paper bag. Seriously. With the subject of the movie and that much blood and gore it's hard to make a movie that doesn't punch you in the guts, but if you want more than that then you've got to DIRECT. After watching it I watched Last Temptation of Christ and while it wasn't nearly as brutal or biblically accurate I really connected and cared for the characters. Scorsese really knows how to do it, and Mel just didn't have the chops to deliver a great movie. I'll still get it on DVD, but for some reason it just didn't do the trick for me.
Seems like the only thing that Mel brought to the movie was the capital to get it made, some Catholic dogma and a bunch of cheesy SFX shots of an ugly satan, scary children and a phantasm that goes "BOO!" to Judas. Wow, thanks for the contribution Mel. Hopefully someone who isn't a wannabe-director will someday give this incredible story the treatment it deserves, because it hasn't happened yet.