Slowly creeping to that inevitable enlisting for World War II, but revealing motivation and backstory initially, so when the battle scenes hit mid-way through you are simply gob-smacked.Īndrew Garfield plays Doss, a kind and gentle God-fearing man, who falls in love with Teresa Palmer’s Dorothy Schutte, but soon realizes – as many able bodied men did during World War II – that he must enlist to defend his country, however under one provision he refuses to kill, use, or even hold a weapon. The biggest difference being instead of opening the film with D-Day as Spielberg’s classic did, Mel Gibson has masterfully crafted Hacksaw Ridge by using the first half of the film set in the United States, following Desmond Doss and introducing his life, his family and himself. To compare it to Saving Private Ryan is the most apt in terms of depth and emotional gravitas. HACKSAW RIDGE RATING REVIEW MOVIEWhen I heard it received a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes earlier this year the question was raised “What’s worth clapping for that long?” Perhaps from the audience it was less an adulatory applause and more a relief, finally – perhaps there’s still a chance 2016 has a glimmer of hope for movie making, because Hacksaw Ridge is one for the books. I had no words, overcome with awe and satisfaction. Phhhhfffwwoaaahhhhh… That’s the only noise I could muster as I left the cinema post screening of Hacksaw Ridge.
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