A Humble, Brave, and Aspiring Story

This film is an incredible war film based on real life events, which features a character we should all commend and aspire to be like. Andrew Garfield gives an amazing performance playing Desmond Doss and really shows his range as an actor. Personally, his performance deserved an Oscar. Garfield shows the real-life character’s inner struggle of his beliefs in a way that doesn’t come across preachy and is admirable. Another actor who I don’t think gets enough praise and was snubbed is Hugo Weaving as Tom Doss. I liked how the film building up on the battle showed the still inflicted horror and trauma of World War One soldiers and how he perceives the war and deals with his PTSD. Furthermore, there were great surprise performances from Vince Vaughn and Sam Worthington in which I didn’t expect them to be such stand outs. Mel Gibson shows his talent as a director once again showing of how good he is at perfecting historical epics like Braveheart and Apocalypto as his action is realistic without feeling too over the top with some great staged set pieces that once they got started, there was no stopping them and never once felt like they dragged or bored me.