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…
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 Tyler Thompson James M. Vernon Suzanne Warren Christopher Woodrow Terry Benedict Paul Currie Bruce Davey William D. Johnson Bill Mechanic Brian Oliver David Permut
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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…
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
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'…
Everything's backlit. Everything's clunky as fuck. The battle scenes have nothing to do with the chap we're meant to care about; he's picking up the aftermath.
It's just... weak.
A feel good good war movie seems an oymoron. It was good apart from the fetishised slo-motion that seems ubiquitous in war movies these days.
The first half of the film was Hallmark tier shitty. Andrew Garfield's accent was laughable. Second half was hardcore as fuck.
Against improbable odds, one man and his refusal to carry a weapon leads to the salvation of seventy-five men.
Hacksaw Ridge is an enigma. At times I hated Mel Gibbson's passion for glorifying war and fetishizing humanities need for bloodshed. Then in the blink of an eye I commended him for telling the true story, albeit a couple of falsities, of Desmond Ross and his commitment to his religion and his sincerity. But that is where the enigma lies, at no point did it feel as though either aspect of the story overshadowed the other. Adversely, it wove a complex narrative of war, religion, humanity, destruction, frantic chaos, and the urge to save lives instead of taking them. If the…
Nicely done war movie about a Conscientious Objector who chooses to go to war to help others. In the end he does amazing things and saves many lives and dodges many Japanese bullets and bayonets.
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