It was so good, it took me 20 minutes to finish the last couple of pages of "Last Temptation" because I couldn't read through the tears that welled up and literally spilled out on to the pages of the book.
Nikos Kazantzakis's book dealt with Christ's internal conflict and internal conflict is extremely difficult to transfer from the page to the screen, but I think Scorsese did about as good a job as could be done. I'm glad I saw the film prior to reading the novel or I might have been very dissapointed.