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 receive 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…
Terry Benedict Paul Currie Bruce Davey William D. Johnson Bill Mechanic Brian Oliver David Permut Michael Bassick Lawrence Bender Len Blavatnik Stuart Ford David S. Greathouse Eric Greenfeld Lenny Kornberg Mark C. Manuel Rick Nicita Ted O'Neal Buddy Patrick Lauren Selig James M. Vernon Suzanne Warren Christopher Woodrow Tyler Thompson
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'…
“What is it want to be?”
“I don’t understand.”
”I can’t hear you!”
“Alright.”
”Lord, help me get one more.”
”All I saw was a skinny kid, I didn’t know who you were. You’ve done more than any other man could have done in his service of his country, and I have never been so wrong about someone in my life. I hope on day you can forgive me.”
A very gruesome and at times hard to watch movie. Andrew Garfield is at his best here and Mel Gibson is back in the spotlight after some troubling years. One of the better 2016 films as well as one of the better war films you'll watch.
Man’s Inhumanity to Mel.
Hacksaw Ridge and Loving offer two visions of hell on earth.
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge is much more than a war movie. Titled after the 1945 Battle of Okinawa on the Japanese bluff known as Hacksaw Ridge, it tells the true-life story of Desmond Doss, a religious conscientious objector who nevertheless saved dozens of fellow soldiers’ lives while serving as a battlefield medic during the final days of World War II. Doss received a Medal of Honor from President Truman, but, ironically, the movie is the work of a famously Christian filmmaker who was publicly excoriated by the mainstream (i.e., secular) media, which lashed out against his 2004 The Passion of the Christ (discussed in my…
Religious propaganda with some intense scenes so you think you're not watching religious propaganda.
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