Christianity, as the intellectualist elaboration about Christ's meaning provided by Paul and John, was a brilliant recipe of given ingredients: a mystic doctrine of personal survival was combined with Stoic earthly disdain and Epicurean aestheticism wrapped up in hope for ultimate justice from a newly close God, Whose long view of the Big Picture would someday be revealed to the most lowly confused slave. (religion-online.org)
The priests» shortcomings continually remind us that ultimate justice flows neither from human institutions nor ecclesiastical insight, nor even from the sensible practice of a moral life. (religion-online.org)
Yet, in the end, it's the reliance on clichés that eventually does Love and Bullets in, and no cliché bigger in the Bronson oeuvre than going above the law and exacting ultimate justice in the last scene. (qwipster.net)