The Creative Mel Gibson Returns

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2016)

Desmond Doss with serious faithful sincerity and a ludicrous Southern accent, was the first conscientious objector in his words. It's a movie about a pacifist in wartime that wants to celebrate the subject's moral code while also reveling in the blood and guts of battle. It's a story of faith and humanity told by a man with, let's call them extremely suspect views. It's a movie that seeks to honor an honorable man, but does so at the expense of other honorable men. His father, a traumatized World War I veteran and violent alcoholic, beats Doss and his brother and mother, and Doss fears the same violence within himself. So he swears off guns and violence and clings tightly to his Bible. It's the first movie Gibson has directed since "Apocalypto" 10 years ago and i expect he will get Oscar for his directing.the only deficient thing But one surprise, given the drama of pacifism-versus-war that the movie has set up, is that there's never a single scene in which Desmond has to consider violating his principles and picking up a weapon in order to save himself or somebody else. A scene like that would have brought the two sides of "Hacksaw Ridge," the violent and the pacifist — and, implicitly, the two sides of Mel Gibson — crashing together. But that would have been a different movie. One that, in the end, was a little less safe.Good movie and Bravo Great Mel Gibson.