Hacksaw Ridge
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: November 4, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
40
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangNov 2, 2016
Gibson has made a movie that is somehow both deeply dishonest and crushingly sincere — and still at war with itself, long after the final shot has been fired. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 2, 2016
There are movies based on real events that must be embellished in order to make them work on the big screen. Mel Gibson's World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge is not such a movie. In fact, it's the opposite. Read full review
60
CineVueJohn BleasdaleSep 10, 2016
There's no getting away from it, Gibson has produced another bombastic, crowd-pleasing and obviously blood-soaked movie which expertly glorifies that which its hero was against. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzNov 3, 2016
It is almost as if Gibson is daring his audience to turn away from his opera of barbarity – but perversely, his violence is the only compelling element of Hacksaw Ridge. Perhaps ironically for a war film, the rest of it is mostly a draw. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayOct 28, 2016
This is a work of defiantly simplistic, classically structured Hollywood storytelling, and Mel Gibson takes to its hokey plot points with some gusto. Read full review
50
IndieWireBen CrollSep 7, 2016
A blood-soaked, bone-crunching hymn to religious devotion and faith, Hacksaw Ridge doesn’t hum Mel Gibson’s favorite themes; it shouts them. Read full review
50
The PlaylistJessica KiangSep 4, 2016
Along with screenwriters Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight, Gibson, whose lack of directorial subtlety but skill with action both reach an apex here, is not content to tell the true story of Desmond Doss and his unshakeable, courage-giving faith. He wants to convince us that his faith was, in fact, the truth. Read full review
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