This year's version of 'American Sniper', which was that year's version of 'Hurt Locker'

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2019)

If there was an award for Best Trailer in the Oscars, hands down the one for this movie will win. Saving almost 75 soldiers without the use of a single weapon? Now that's the stuff Academy Awards vehicle are made of. This year's version of 'American Sniper', which was that year's version of 'Hurt Locker', I don't know how the nomination process goes but maybe it's about time to mix things up in order for us to see other good movies that also deserve our attention. Now this is not to say HR is bad altogether, but at this point seeing the same story for the nth time about how one white man in a middle of war became a hero is starting to feel repetitive. It's okay to still make a movie about them but to seemingly have an automatic slot in the Best Picture category needs to be looked into.
Now past the AA politics, HR is a well-crafted movie designed to reel you in for the next 2 hours. We see WW2 Army Medic Desmond Doss's humble beginnings, his love story, the struggles he had before he was allowed to be deployed with his battalion and then Hacksaw Ridge. Since life isn't as compact as a 2hr movie, they took the liberty of moving things around such as her wife only became a nurse after they got married, and deleting things such as HR wasn't his first deployment, he actually was already sent to Guam then Leyte, Philippines.
While this will not merit Andrew Garfield an Oscar trophy, he has just set himself up as the next go-to leading man in Hollywood and effectively getting out of shadow of the role he was most known for. Teresa Palmer reminds you of Kristen Stewart that can act, that Vince Vaughn is still alive, what Sam Worthington looks like minus the Avatar effects and Hugo Weaving as a person and not a "machine". Lastly, for effect, the director. It's nice to see Mel Gibson back on his feet after his racist and violent outburst years ago. Who knows, we may very well see a movie about his life soon.