Hacksaw Ridge

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2018)

Hacksaw Ridge is a World War Two movie made by Mel Gibson. I loved this movie and I think that it deserves an A, for its well-told story and its acting.
Hacksaw Ridge is a good war movie that you could show your kids when they get into middle school ( around 8th grade would be best). Sure it is violent and pretty gory, but compared to the other war movies it is not as bad. There are no F-words, but there is one scene where a character is naked, and some implied sex, but other than that it is a pretty appropriate movie sexuality-wise. You should go into this movie knowing that it is made by Mel Gibson, and he makes very bloody films, but hopefully, that should already be expected. The movie has some parts in it that might scare young kids and it also might scare older viewers, because it is pretty disturbing, but if they are in the age range of 12 and 13 they should not get scared.
Hacksaw Ridge is a World War Two movie that shows us an American medic helping soldiers on the Pacific Front. The medic is Virginian Desmond Doss, who is very religious, and that will play a part in him being in the military. He refuses to pick up a weapon, and he does not want to kill anyone or in his words, " I do not want to take the life of another human being, because that is the greatest sin,". It starts out with Desmond and his brother ( whose name I do not have) hiking. It cuts to them fighting back at home, I do not want to spoil anything so I will just say that Desmond wins in the bad way. We then have to sit through an hour of Desmond dealing with a girl and his father disapproving of Desmond's choice's and actually getting to fight in the war, and then we get about 20 minutes of Doss at boot camp. It takes an hour and twenty minutes to get to the actual war part, but let me tell you that if you are missing the violence of war you will still see lots of blood in Desmond's everyday life, we only get about an hour of the war and fighting.
What I really liked about Hacksaw Ridge was how they are showing us the Pacific Front instead of the European Front. Because we have seen enough movies about the Nazi party being overthrown by America because they were screwing with the American military ( the Nazi's), give us something new! Now I thought that Hugo Weaving did a great job acting. The entire cast does a really good job at acting, but I think the best acting was actually done by the people whom Doss was saving.
I am very sad that Andrew Garfield did not win Best Actor because he did a phenomenal job as Desmond Doss. I seem to forget he is British because all of his best roles are Americans. But I will still say my congratulations to Casey Affleck for winning his first Oscar.
Hacksaw Ridge was different from all the other war movies. Besides the immense amount of violence, it was a different kind of war movie. So it does not remind me of any movies.
My final grade for Hacksaw Ridge is an A, for its well-told story and its great acting.