The more I thought about it the less I was impressed by the battle scenes of Hacksaw Ridge (spoilers)
Posted by
Mel Profit (aka mel profit)
Dec 8 '16, 13:14
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it was eventually repetitive as is Gibson's habit. He likes to find that really disturbing image and repeat it. Rats eating corpses was his thing this time.
The thing that made SPR unique was the absolutely rapid fire but differing horror. It was like 10mins of "what the hell else is going to happen?" That and the fact that they use your two primary movie senses (no Groiny, not smell). As I've mentioned - you hear the German machine gun just as much as you see what it does.
I think Hacksaw tries to rise to the leave of SPR and gets there only briefly before wallowing in Gibson's masochistic violence fetish.
That's not to take away from the real life heroics of the primary character. That's bravery I can barely comprehend.
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