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Could you go into a little more depth about this? Specifically, I'm wondering about a scene where Jesus is chained and thrown or dangled from a bridge. Did that scene stand out to you, assuming it's really in the movie?

In the scene in question, the Jewish soldiers had taken Jesus into custody and were abusing Him as they were walking along. When they got to a bridge they shoved Him so hard that He went off of the side of a medium sized foot bridge. Before He hit the bottom He was stopped short by the ropes and chains and the breath knocked out of Him. While down there He sees Judas who is hiding under the bridge. No words are spoken (Jesus couldn't have if He had wanted to since the breath had been knocked from Him) but words were not needed. After looking at each other Jesus is hauled back up. Judas then sees that he is not the only one under the bridge, Satan is under there also. This begins a prolonged scene in which Judas struggles with either real or imagined demons before he loses the struggle and hangs himself. It is extra Biblical but plausible enough and as far as I'm concerned allowable poetic license.

Could you go into a little more depth about this? Specifically, I'm wondering about a scene where Jesus is chained and thrown or dangled from a bridge.

Good luck finding this in the Gospels. More from Emmerich's lurid imagination. Unfortunate. The Gospels stand up well enough on their own without such crude embellishment.