I'm not claiming to be smarter than the average viewer, I'm just saying that the finale plays like the natural course of the story, and not something surprising. (jackasscritics.com)
In the course of our story we have seen that Christianity has never been even nominally accepted by more than a minority of mankind. (religion-online.org)
Short of an effortless deflation by David Bowie late in the film, he's actually part of very few substantial events through the course of the story, so there aren't many opportunities to see him react other than trying to overwhelm his problems with sheer bullheadedness. (rottentomatoes.com)