by Kevin Muller
Despite what you may feel about him, Mel Gibson is one hell of a director. He gives his projects such a determined passion that isn’t really seen in movies today. It has been ten long years since he has been in the director’s chair, after controversial marks that nearly destroyed his career, and he has given us a war movie about hero Desmond Doss.
Mel Gibson has slowly been putting himself back into Hollywood’s good books after he ostracized himself with his drunken, racist rants. He’s primarily worked in lower budget actions movies which have been mostly decent but he hasn’t stepped behind the camera since Apocalypto in 2006. Now ten years later he takes up directing duties again for a war movie about a pacifist and the true story of Desmond Doss on Hacksaw Ridge, it’s an incredible story and unbelievable if it wasn’t true but Gibson has a story to tell about a man of god going into Hell and the result is pretty good, though falls just short of greatness.
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