Saving Private Ryan plus Full Metal Jacket = Hacksaw Ridge

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2017)

Seen Full Metal Jacket? Then you have seen the first half hour of this movie, just imagine Vince Vaughn doing a bad impression of the drill sergeant and you are there already.
Seen the trailer? Then you have seen all the story bits of this movie. They aren't particularly deep or clever and while they provide a narrative for the story, you have seen it all in the trailer!
Seen the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan? Then you have seen the rest of this movie. Lots of gory violence, fire stunts, bits of people being blown apart, and general graphic carnage.
For all that Andrew Garfield is very good. The mass of Australian actors that make up the rest of the cast generally mask their accents well enough. The racist portrayal of the Japanese is almost forgivable given the context of the film.
Shouldn't be on the Oscar shortlist, but no surprise that a bit of Americanised propaganda got so many votes in the current climate of world politics.