This movie should have been called Full Employment for Australian Actors

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2017)

Once again, raves from reviewers who, obviously, never experienced a military boot camp, let alone combat, lulled me into sitting through this snoozer. But before you could say G'day Mate I was more interested in trying to determine which Australian actors DID NOT get a payday from this ludicrous and clichéd-filled alleged retelling of the life of Desmond Doss.
Somebody deserves to be court martialed for the miscasting of Vince Vaughn as Doss's platoon sergeant. But I knew this movie was bodgy and not dinkum when the assault on the eponymous ridge begins by scaling a cargo net up a cliff face and blood drips down upon the climbers supposedly foretelling the carnage they're about to face. Thankfully, the Japanese decide to cut Mel Gibson a break and leave this avenue of assault in place for later use in the movie.
Andrew Garfield was adequately puerile in the prologue to combat (which includes him playing hacky sack with a grenade) in the obligatory meet cute with his future Aussie (oops I mean American) wife and his angst ridden Aussie parents. Another director should give a burl to the amazing story of Desmond Doss and until then I'd recommend going directly to Wikipedia. P.S. - Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, you missed out on an easy check.