Soldiers on trampoline

Rating: 2/10 (7 February 2017)

Hacksaw Ridge was supposed to be the glorious directorial return of Mel Gibson and is a tale (based on a true story!) about a soldier that refuses to carry a gun and rescues fellow soldiers on a battlefield. Sounds like Oscar worthy idea for a movie, sadly it falls flat on its face on the most basic level - being a good movie...
I was able to watch about half an hour of this movie before I just left the theater. There's so many things that I just couldn't stand. I'll give you few points:
1) in your freaking face catholic propaganda - I felt like 75% of dialogues and characters actions had something to do with catholic religion. Crosses everywhere, main character working for the church, soldiers biting their rosaries in the middle of the battle (so powerful symbolism right, like 'oh god, give me power and forgive me at the same time' or whatever), etc etc 2) lame love story 3) the biggest sin of all - battle scenes. They are absolutely goofy, bonkers and loony tunes cartoonish. How about a shot of guts and corpses interweaved with soldiers walking through this mess? Guts, soldiers, guts, soldiers, corpse, soldiers. I GET IT MEL! How about the guy, who is using dismembered corpse of another soldier as a shield, shooting rambo style, killing 4 enemies in a row. How about grenades and mortars blowing up next to the soldiers who then fly in all directions like freaking rabbits? Why does it feel like all of those soldiers on fire (in the beginning of the movie) were just told to jump on trampolines in greenscreen rooms (yes, special effects are THAT noticeable), and so on and so forth dude...
The last 'in your face' bad war movie (in my opinion of course) was American Sniper directed by Clint Eastwood. There was similar oversaturation of catholic themes, America, questionable motivations of characters, etc. But at least it was watchable, Hacksaw Ridge is just laughably goofy.
2/10