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Nov 4, 2016 · Hacksaw Ridge uses a real-life pacifist's legacy to lay the groundwork for a gripping wartime tribute to faith, valor, and the courage of remaining true to one's convictions. Read Critics...
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Nov 4, 2016 · Roger Ebert criticizes Mel Gibson's film for its contradictory portrayal of pacifism and violence, and its failure to capture the horrors of war. He praises Andrew Garfield's performance as Desmond T. Doss, a conscientious objector who saved 75 soldiers in Okinawa.
Nov 1, 2016 · “Hacksaw Ridge” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Blood, guts and period-appropriate racial slurs and tobacco use. Running time: 2 hours 11 minutes.
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Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022. Hacksaw Ridge seems at odds with itself, particularly during the chaotic and gruesome second half, as it tells a story about a brave pacifist...
- A brutal and effective filmmaking return for Mel Gibson.
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By Alex Welch
Posted: Nov 2, 2016 9:14 pm
The story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector awarded the Medal of Honor for his contributions in World War II’s Battle of Okinawa, is the kind of true story that was going to be made into a movie sooner or later. Frankly, it’s surprising that it hadn’t been already, and with Hacksaw Ridge, Doss’ heroics have finally been brought to life on the big screen. In one of the more talked about returns of the year too, as the film comes from director Mel Gibson, who has come back to the theaters with his first directorial outing since 2006's Apocalypto.
Gibson is at times both a perfect and odd choice to direct Hacksaw Ridge. His paradoxical love of both violence, war heroes, and men of peace has been established thoroughly in his previous films Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ, the latter of which threw its peaceful lead savior into a bloody world of cruelty and torture that could have easily made you forget you were even watching a Biblical movie in the first place.
Where those contradictory passions might have hurt Hacksaw Ridge under less steady hands however, Gibson uses his admiration of Doss’ peaceful conviction and equal love of bloody, giant spectacle to accurately mirror the same moral dilemma Doss was forced to face every time he stepped onto the battlefield. The war sequences themselves are just as chaotic and technically sound as the opening of Saving Private Ryan, managing to not only bring you to almost panic-inducing thrills, but also leaving you horrified of the carnage and death that war leaves in its wake.
Despite opening with a brief promise of the violence to come, Gibson makes you wait until about halfway through the film before actually bringing you onto the Battle of Hacksaw Ridge. Instead, he takes time to explain and build up Desmond’s pacifist beliefs, which are spurred on after a nearly fatal fight with his kid brother, and the constant presence of his alcoholic, abusive WWI veteran of a father (played humbly and angrily by Hugo Weaving). Flash forward to fifteen years later, and Desmond (Andrew Garfield) eventually courts Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), a nurse he meets at his local hospital. Their romance feels so idealized, naive, and almost too innocent at times that it’s hard not to shake your head at some of the extremely corny dialogue both Palmer and Garfield have to give during some of their first scenes together.
At times horrifying, inspiring, and heart-wrenching, Hacksaw Ridge is one of the most successful war films of recent memory, which works because it doesn’t toss aside the most vital of Desmond’s beliefs: that life must be protected as much as possible, no matter what. You don’t need to look much further than the reaction one of Desmond’s patients g...
- Alex Welch
Hacksaw Ridge is the latest film from the infamous Mel Gibson and it is as electrifying as one would come to expect. Telling the story of Desmond Doss, an Army medic that refused to carry a weapon through the hell fire of battle in Okinawa at the height of World War II.
Sep 4, 2016 · The film tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a pacifist medic who served in WWII and faced the horrors of Okinawa. Critic Owen Gleiberman praises the film's brutality, idiosyncrasy and moral struggle, but also sees it as an act of atonement for Gibson's scandals.
