Hacksaw Ridge
A true story about a man who refused to carry a weapon, went to the worst battle of the Pacific, and saved 75 lives. Somehow still underrated.
Desmond Doss was a Seventh-day Adventist conscientious objector who enlisted in WWII and refused to touch a rifle. His unit mocked him. His commanding officers tried to discharge him. He stayed. Then they all went up Hacksaw Ridge on Okinawa, and Doss spent one night alone on that ridge after his unit had retreated, pulling wounded men to the edge and lowering them down one at a time.
Mel Gibson directs the combat sequences with brutal honesty. It is not clean. It is not heroic in the Hollywood sense. It is men being destroyed by machinery in the dark and one unarmed medic moving through it asking one thing of himself over and over.
Garfield plays Doss without making him strange or saintly. He's just a man who decided what he believed and did not move from it. That's the whole film. Watch it.
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