Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 biographical war film about the World War II was directed by Mel Gibson and written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on a earlier documentary about Doss. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths and Vince Vaughn. It was released in the United States on November 4, 2016.

It is about the experiences of Desmond Doss, an American pacificist combat medic who was a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, refusing to carry or use a firearm or weapons of any kind.

Plot
The extraordinary true story of conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) who saved 75 men in Okinawa, during the bloodiest battle of WWII, without firing a single shot. Believing that the war was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon. As an army medic Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines - braving enemy fire and putting his own life on the line. He was the first conscientious objector to ever win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Cast

 * Andrew Garfield as Desmond T. Doss
 * Vince Vaughn as Sergeant Howell
 * Sam Worthington as Captain Glover
 * Luke Bracey as Smitty Riker
 * Hugo Weaving as Tom Doss
 * Ryan Corr as Lieutenant Manville
 * Teresa Palmer as Dorothy Schutte, his first wife
 * Rachel Griffiths as Bertha Doss, his mother
 * Richard Roxburgh as Colonel Stelzer
 * Luke Pegler as Milt "Hollywood" Zane
 * Richard Pyros as Randall "Teach" Fuller
 * Ben Mingay as Grease Nolan
 * Firass Dirani as Vito Rinnelli
 * Jacob Warner as James Pinnick
 * Goran D. Kleut as Andy 'Ghoul' Walker
 * Harry Greenwood as Henry Brown
 * Damien Thomlinson as Ralph Morgan
 * Robert Morgan as Colonel Sangston
 * Nathaniel Buzolic as Harold "Hal" Doss
 * Ori Pfeffer as Irv Schecter
 * Milo Gibson as Lucky Ford
 * John Batziolas as Private Schulenburg
 * John Cannon as Corporal Cannon
 * Mikael Koski as Private Giles
 * Charles Jacobs as Private Webb
 * Ulyses Medina as "Are you alive" boy

Critical response
Hacksaw Ridge received critical acclaim. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87%, based on 172 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Hacksaw Ridge uses a real-life pacifist's legacy to lay the groundwork for a gripping wartime tribute to faith, valor, and the courage of remaining true to one's convictions." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average out of 100 to reviews, the film has a score of 71 out of 100, based on 45 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an average "A" grade on an A+ to F scale.