2016 Directed by Mel Gibson
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Andrew Garfield Sam Worthington Vince Vaughn Luke Bracey Teresa Palmer Hugo Weaving Rachel Griffiths Ryan Corr Richard Roxburgh Luke Pegler Firass Dirani Goran D. Kleut Nathaniel Buzolic Ori Pfeffer Matthew Nable Jacob Warner Richard Pyros Ben Mingay Harry Greenwood Damien Thomlinson Robert Morgan Milo Gibson John Batziolas John Cannon Mikael Koski Charles Jacobs Ben O'Toole James Lugton Tim McGarry Show All…
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if i wanted to be preached at for two hours and witness messy explosions with rats crawling everywhere i'd have just gone on film twitter and stated an opinion
Hacksaw Ridge might be the most realistic portrayal of War ever put on screen.
Mel Gibson proves once again that he is a legitimate top-notch director. This film is incredibly well made. Every aspect of this movie is impressive. The performances. The visuals. The battle scenes. The story. The characters. You name it, and this movie does it well. The man deserves a Best Director nom!
If Andrew Garfield isn't AT LEAST nominated for an Oscar, it will be a travesty. This is Andrew Garfield's movie, but aside from him I was most impressed with Vince Vaughn. I've never seen him take on a roll like this and I think he pretty much knocked it out of the park. He…
I left Hacksaw Ridge with such a powerful reaction that I never get with movies. I left this stunned and almost speechless. It's one of the best directed movies of 2016, with great editing, beautiful cinematography, fantastic performances, most notably Andrew Garfield (His best performance and possibly the best of 2016), Vince Vaughn (Brings a lot of the films funniest moments to the light), and Luke Bracey (If you thought he was bad or dull, this will get you a few steps away from that), and intense combat sequences. The movie is heartbreaking, intense, and hilarious (Can't believe how funny this was honestly) all in one. We need more movies as good as this. Seriously a must see.
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Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge is a flawed but impassioned rewiring of his own particular brand of monstrous viscera. Arriving back at the director's chair after years of controversy intermingled with periods of silence, Gibson's WWII epic is an outcry for forgiveness, a film where faith prevails and surface exteriors are evoked, shed, broken down. It is both a conventional, swooning biopic and a hardened, grisly showcase, a film where two halves collapse into one mythic tapestry; a portrayal of Man as masculine beings threatened by the utilization of non-violence only to be saved by their very own 'conscientious objector.' While Mel's knack for melodrama is just as sturdy as ever, his innate understanding of story structure (insert 'South Park'…
O simbolismo religioso é escancarado de uma maneira incômoda. Seja pelo contra plongée que ascende o personagem principal aos céus ou na maneira em que os japoneses são retratados como se fossem demônios.
O primeiro ato burocrático e arrastado contrasta com o impacto visual das cenas de guerra de uma maneira que enfraquece e torna o filme irregular.
If I were too describe "Saving Private Ryan" I'd describe it as: problematic themes are ingrained in the storytelling.
If I were to describe "Hacksaw Ridge" in a similar capacity of words I'd describe it as: Thematically the storytelling is problematic. The biggest issue in "Hacksaw Ridge" is the direction. Mel Gibson fails to steer the massive ship he has helmed. The film lane hops from preachy to Grindhouse to a standard war film it never actually chooses.
Mel Gibson doesn't really try and capture the horror of war in a way that makes the film uncomfortable to watch, but rather settles for something that will satisfy teenage boys who are looking to see a mans head be riddled with bullets.
Garfield's awful accent is more horrifying that the actual horrors of war.
The message behind this movie is so vile. It corrupted the true beautiful message that should be portrayed. Pure violent pornography.
What a story. Gibson can't avoid a little biopic cheese -- the courtroom drama, the flashbacks -- but everything else is on point.
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