Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

This is yet another great story put on film poorly. We are told rather than shown way too much here about who Desmond Doss is as a person. Characters tell us he's super-religious, but we only see him in church once -- and that's working on a ladder when there's no service going on. We're told that he prays about everything, though we've never seen him pray until the end of the movie. We're also told that his father beat him, but we'd only seen his father drunkenly lose his temper -- I had no idea there that Dad was abusive; I just thought he was an idiot.

This is truly a seriously interesting story, but you know it's not a good sign when the most moving bits of it are the pictures and videos of the actual Doss we're treated to right before the credits.

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