We are shocked that Gibson has not fulfilled his promise to remove the most troublesome aspects of this film. We are especially concerned with a scene in which a mob of Jews who are present when Pontius Pilate condemns Jesus to death calls down a blood curse (Matthew 27:25). This scene so far remains intact, even though Gibson indicated that he was removing it.
The ADL is correct in stating that the Vatican II Ecumenical Council in the early 1960s clarified that the Catholic Church rejects collective responsibility of Jews for all generations for the death of Jesus. If Gibson's film merely presents the Gospel account, however, then it is in no way contrary to that teaching of Vatican II. Some Jews, as well as Romans, are directly responsible for Jesus' being condemned to die, as there were some Jews and Romans at the time who were not responsible. We cannot blame any Jew of the present day for that. And just because the Jewish crowd in the Gospel says responsibility will be upon future generations, that is not a statement of God, but just the opinion of those individuals, and as we know from the Church's teaching, it is a wrongful opinion.
Some of the criticism is that the movie portrays the Romans favorably the Jews unfavorably. The movie is not the book. The book is not the movie. You will of course see the movie and form your own opinion.