Hacksaw Ridge

Summit Entertainment | Release Date: November 4, 2016

8.2	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 839 Ratings

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AlmostCriticSep 5, 2017

Hacksaw Ridge an incredible true-life story that does a great disservice to the hero it was supposed to honor. The film is essentially 20 minutes of erratic gore sandwiched between a mediocre love story. The dialogue is laughingly contrivedHacksaw Ridge an incredible true-life story that does a great disservice to the hero it was supposed to honor. The film is essentially 20 minutes of erratic gore sandwiched between a mediocre love story. The dialogue is laughingly contrived to the point that it is distracting. Garfield’s goofy Virginia accent and forced emotions left me scratching my head as to how he could possibly have been nominated for Best Actor. A few bad cuts and continuity errors only add to unfathomable fact that this film is nominated for an academy award.

I cannot believe it's so highly praised. The performances wouldn't be out of place in Lifetime movie. The cinematography and effects were great but you can't hide a bad movie behind sqips and pyrotechnics.… Expand

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mo0nbuggy1Jan 25, 2017

Best comedy of 2016.
Seriously, we laughed our butts off through a good portion of this movie. 3 stars for making us giggle like girls when he slapped and kicked the grenades away.

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WaltexNov 21, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. An important movie, solidly told and directed

Yes, there are directing gaps (for example why are the boys' clothes so crisp and clean when they have been playing in the forest at the start of the film). I mostly loved Mel's direction of his other films ... he surprised me in those films ... he made creative decisions that were awesome and innovative, clever ... however few surprises in this one. Directing is good, but there are gaps ... the directing is somewhat "colouring in by the numbers" but he does a good job and one feels emotional involvement throughout the film.

I would actually say the war scenes were more genuine and better than Saving Private Ryan ... well done Mel! A mixed patch of acting performances ... but somehow the story is so powerful that it rises above all of these inconsistencies or deficiencies ... What an amazingly brave man ... it shows us that you can't judge a book by its cover. I'm also glad that he rescued some Japanese soldiers too. It made me think that maybe I could aim to do something significant and important with my life too, God willing… Expand

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hootisMar 7, 2017

Poorly made US military propaganda film. You would think after the 500th one people would get tired. But I guess I'm out of touch, to most people this is a welcome break from the 15 super hero movies they've seen this month.

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AxeTNov 14, 2016

Rating = 6 (Metacritic incompetence)... Very high expectations from word of mouth just didn't live up to this as I watched it. It's a bit too melodramatic for my taste which is slightly surprising coming from Gibson. It is a great trueRating = 6 (Metacritic incompetence)... Very high expectations from word of mouth just didn't live up to this as I watched it. It's a bit too melodramatic for my taste which is slightly surprising coming from Gibson. It is a great true story, and the film is well made for sure and refreshingly conventional in its way. It starts off slow which is not necessarily a problem, but once at war the battles are so gruesomely endless my attention was strained.

War movies have never been a favorite genre of mine and I rarely love them. Love and War are the two most powerful experiences in life, so they fundamentally always draw intense interest.

Here's some of the best I've seen.

"Star Wars" (fantasy but still war)
"Force Ten from Navarone" (immensely under-rated plot driven/messageless mission story with great cast and even better than the classic original)
"The Deer Hunter"
"Apocalypse Now" (over-rated as supreme best, still a masterpiece yeah)
"The Final Countdown" (great sci-fi set at war)
"Das Boot"
"Platoon"
"Full Metal Jacket" (flawed but Kubrick)
"Born on the Fourth of July"
"Jacob's Ladder" (not really a war movie and exactly its trippy brilliance)
"Saving Private Ryan" (flawed but worthy)
"The Thin Red Line" (flawed by worthy)
"Three Kings" (surprisingly original)
"The Patriot" (strong turned formula)
"The Pianist" (not so much war, but backdrop)
"Inglorious Basterds" (fantasy but genius)… Expand

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GiakiMay 24, 2017

Come on, this film is a giant ****
Too much exaggerated with that save one man after another thing.
Zero realist or barely believable, this film ruined everthing that was truth about the real story.

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YorkManJun 2, 2020

It's kind of weird, watching Hacksaw Ridge. The tale of Desmond Doss, the conscientious objector who stood alongside his 'brothers' on the field of battle, during the Pacific campaign of World War 2.

Why is it weird? Because the film doesn'tIt's kind of weird, watching Hacksaw Ridge. The tale of Desmond Doss, the conscientious objector who stood alongside his 'brothers' on the field of battle, during the Pacific campaign of World War 2.

Why is it weird?
Because the film doesn't pull punches when it comes to the depiction of extreme violence, death and loss...

But shies away from profanity, drug use, copious alcohol consumption, and the chainsmoking carried out by the rank and file soldiery during the conflict.

The movie seems happy to visualise the maiming of these young men, but then has to protect the viewer from said other aspects of the everyday lives they lead.

It's very frustrating!

As for the film, as a 'film'... It's not too bad, but as an educated man who is well versed through various media, the depiction of warfare is way off!… Expand

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dcalJun 20, 2020

Anyone who rated this movie above a 5 is a Christian whose religious beliefs blur their ability to recognize true talent and cinematic art. Look at the vast majority of Christian faith-based films and they have ridiculously high ratings.Anyone who rated this movie above a 5 is a Christian whose religious beliefs blur their ability to recognize true talent and cinematic art. Look at the vast majority of Christian faith-based films and they have ridiculously high ratings. Why? Because the only people watching are Christians who buy into that kind of melodramatic, bad acting, vapid story-telling. No objective observer could watch Hacksaw Ridge and Saving Private Ryan and rate them both a 10. Saving Private Ryan is incredible. It has character depth, amazing acting, an intricate storyline, and true to life historical accuracy. Hacksaw Ridge in the first half is preachy with a bad actor in Garfield, and the second half is mindless violence watching scores of people die, including American soldiers we know nothing about and therefore have no emotional connection to. The contrast in Saving Private Ryan is that they develop their characters. So when you see one of them die, you are genuinely moved to tears. Hacksaw is a farce. Garfield is a terrible actor. And this story is ridiculously filmed and directed. Even IF the loose story this is based on is worth retelling, this movie did it ZERO justice. This movie is the equivalent of "Jesus take the wheel." Well, I hate to say it, but Jesus is terrible at making compelling war movies.… Expand

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PapahoomamaMay 23, 2020

The rhetoric of a sermon. If you enjoy TV preachers, this one's for you. Oh and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead inspired the battle scenes.

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dec242Dec 26, 2021

The story itself is interesting and obviously it's a Hollywood movie after all with plenty of good actors involved but the constant religious virtue signaling together with Andrew Garfield's tendency to sound somewhat whiny made me cringeThe story itself is interesting and obviously it's a Hollywood movie after all with plenty of good actors involved but the constant religious virtue signaling together with Andrew Garfield's tendency to sound somewhat whiny made me cringe several times to the point where I thought I'd switch it off. Nevertheless, if you can overlook the forced christian agenda then it's not a bad pseudo-historic war movie.… Expand

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KannibalKorpAug 7, 2022

Unless you’re a Republican, believe that guns solve problems of insecurity, find that La Manif Pour Tous didn’t say that **** that cops don’t do anything wrong and that God is your friend ... in short, if you’re not right, it’s not a goodUnless you’re a Republican, believe that guns solve problems of insecurity, find that La Manif Pour Tous didn’t say that **** that cops don’t do anything wrong and that God is your friend ... in short, if you’re not right, it’s not a good film.

Ah but yeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!! The film has completely failed where it could have been unique! What do you mean? Highlight the role of combat doctors ... no no no continue to put tearful sequences well into the intertwined religious pathos of Match à Mort by Team Call of Duty ... yes yes no no, Don’t try to give a documentary aspect to the doctors of no man’s land, about how these heroes learned to operate between shells and machine guns ...

After seeing a romance that makes you want to strangle cats, get ready for the worst sequence of a training camp! With a Vince Vaughn sulking and slammed as possible! You will never be so uncomfortable in front of a drill sergeant!

Ppffffffffff, they prefer to show us the heroic gesture of the man rather than to show the real stupidity of the military administration to not let him do ... when he has the right ... But the real problem: no one give a **** that he wants to be a medic?? ... I mean ... why doesn’t he yell it ?? ... Why doesn’t anyone make the connection ??? ... He’ll go faster to save guys if he doesn’t shoot ...

Not so good, go watch We Were Soldiers, same ****ty intro but less boring (a lot) with great great action.… Expand

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Benkoko11Feb 27, 2017

I wish I had conscientiously objected to seeing Hacksaw Ridge; a lesson in heavy-handed righteousness followed by a seemingly never-ending sequence of limb-flying, gut-splattering violence. Masochists needn't make films about pacifism.

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