Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016) by Jeje W — 08 Apr 2017

This movie blew me away, man. After seeing Andrew Garfield flop in the two Amazing Spiderman movies, I was pretty much done with him. He sucked in both of them and I was ready for him to suck again. But he knocked it out of the park on this one.

He is incredible in this movie. It genuinely surprised me. But enough about him. Let's talk about the man, the myth, the "Jew Hater", Mel Gibson. Everyone is giving him a hard time for something he said.

Yeah, that was not cool at all but that doesn't change the fact that he is a really good director. In fact, Hacksaw Ridge is one of my favorite movies of the year. The visuals, they were amazing. It's like Saving Private Ryan.

However, the editing is really, really, very not good. Like, at all. It's not up there with Moonlight, which should've won best editing, but it's not down there with Suicide Squad, either.

But it is really bad. There are also several shots that bother me. For example, someone throws a grenade into a cave or trench. So it's a wide shot of the Americans and the Japanese and the grenade in the middle.

But when they want to focus on the grenade, it's the exact same shot but zoomed up. And you don't see it zoom up, the shot just closes in. And then, the camera follows the grenade and it just looks terrible.

Apart from that, Hacksaw Ridge was a very well done film and it gets an 8/10.