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Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2017)

Superb film dealing with a conscientious objector becoming a war hero. No, it's not Gary Cooper in Sergeant York, but rather newcomer Andrew Garfield who gave a gut wrenching well-deserved Oscar nominated performance.
From a dysfunctional family, he meets the love of his life and with the advent of World War 11, he wishes to serve as a medic but didn't realize the abuse and harassment he was in for when he went into the army and refused to touch a gun.
We see military brass ready to condemn him, but yet we see sympathy for him, especially by the sergeant he later almost saved at Okinawa.
Pulling the wounded survivors off the mountain was certainly a fete to be remembered. The battle scenes are gory all the way but after all, what is war?
Ironically, he saves those who scorned him and earned the respect he truly deserved.