Mel Gibson's movie gets 10-minute standing ovasion
The director’s
new film Hacksaw Ridge, starring Andrew Garfield, has won over critics
and audiences at the Venice Film Festival, receiving a full 10 minute
standing ovation for the portrayal of the true story of soldier Private
Doss.
It also generated Oscar buzz, as talk turned to him him being inline for the Best Director Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards.
The 60-year-old has spent years trying to shake off his past, in
which he made anti-Semitic slurs following an arrest on suspicion of
drink driving. He has also made homophobic and racist comments, and in
2011 pleaded no contest to battering ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.
His World War II film got four stars from The Telegraph and had glowing reviews from The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter.
Andrew Pulver of the Guardian said in his four-star review that
Gibson was ‘looking for redemption’ with this new film and that he had
found it.
‘Hacksaw Ridge couldn’t be more perfect,’ he wrote.
The reviews
The reviews
The Guardian – ‘Gibson is a man looking for redemption, and in this redemptive vision he may just have found it.’
The Telegraph – ‘Hacksaw Ridge is a fantastically moving and bruising war film that hits you like a raw topside of beef in the face.’
The Hollywood Reporter – ‘He once again proves himself a muscular storyteller who knows exactly how to raise a pulse, heighten emotion and build intensity to explosive peaks.’
The Guardian – ‘Gibson is a man looking for redemption, and in this redemptive vision he may just have found it.’
The Telegraph – ‘Hacksaw Ridge is a fantastically moving and bruising war film that hits you like a raw topside of beef in the face.’
The Hollywood Reporter – ‘He once again proves himself a muscular storyteller who knows exactly how to raise a pulse, heighten emotion and build intensity to explosive peaks.’
The film is based on the true story of Desmond Doss, played by Andrew
Garfield. During one of the bloodiest battles of WWII, Private Doss
refused to even lift a gun, and saved the lives of 75 men without firing
a single bullet.
Hacksaw Ridge also stars Vince Vaughn
He was the only American soldier of the entire war to fight in the
front lines without a weapon. An army medic, he saved wounded men from
behind enemy lines risking his own life in the process. He was awarded
the Congressional Medal Of Honour.
Hacksaw Ridge stars Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer and
Sam Worthington. It is yet to be given a UK release date but will arrive
in cinemas in the US on November 4.
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