Overhyped Bad Cinema

Rating: 5/10 (10 May 2018)

I went in with high hopes on this one. Mel Gibson generally has uncompromising vision of his movies and even if he is a racist it is important to note that he is a director of extreme talent.
Unfortunately, Hacksaw Ridge is so unbelievably clichéd and trite that it is quite surprising that this cinema has multiple Oscar nominations and a 86% RT rating.
Every year a good war movie has to come out of Hollywood (American Sniper, The Hurt Locker etc.) These are war movies with an undeniable American Jingoistic point of view but that has never diluted the fact that they are good movies from a filmmaking perspective.
Hacksaw, on the other hand, is just formulaic cinema. The War scenes are cartoonish, the love story is sleep inducing, the actions of the protagonist super hero like, the Japanese enemy one dimensional, the characters have bad dialogues, the acting mediocre. It does have its moments of entertainment but then so does the latest Ghostbusters.
In one particular scene, in the middle of a war zone our hero is splashed with slow motion gushes of water as his blood is washed off (a baptism scene to show he is no less than a saint). From where did all this water come from?? Well looks like Mel Gibson aint coming back. Three words: Overhyped Bad Cinema.