The two and a half stars is completely for Andrew Garfield and every other actor doing exceptional work in this film and pretty much nothing else. Gibson’s ideologically rotten worldview peeks through in several places and I honestly should have expected that, but god.
The choice to be repeatedly this excessively brutal and gory in an attempt to honour the story of a pacifist is an approach that directly counters the very message the film is attempting to send. The…
