He is quickly outcast in one pivotal scene that rapidly spirals out of his control and turns his pacifism into a sense of humiliation and contempt, which follows him into the battlefield. Going into the second quarter, things improve slightly when Doss manages to make more enemies than friends during basic training, magnetizing the ire of his superiors and infantryman Smitty Riker (Luke Bracey). Despite a praiseworthy performance by Hugo Weaving as Doss's deeply troubled father, the story simple runs through the usual motions, hitting all the requisite beats meant to gain our sympathies and establish an alliance with Doss. I must admit their meet-cute is genuinely charming, but the rest of Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan's script ultimately feels generic and routine.
Inspired by the amazing heroics of a young pacifist who enlisted at the height of WWII, we spend a great deal of time with Desmond Doss (an impressive Andrew Garfield), familiarizing us with the idyllic small town he grew up in and how he met his future wife, Dorothy (Teresa Palmer). And it's really not until this moment I began to slowly forgive the filmmakers for the rather mawkish and frankly conventional melodrama that occupied the entire first half.
The tension-filled, anxiety-ridden sequence is deliberately restrained and perfectly measured, calculatingly luring viewers into a similar state of unease as the characters. Even after they scale the cargo climbing nets to the top, a thick smoke makes it nearly impossible to see the enemy nearby.
While the men stare at the dark, burnt edge after being bombed, there is an ominous air of silence blowing overhead, and the scene is disturbingly quiet. Minutes before, they marched past trucks of dead soldiers and a company of young, tired, defeated men going in the opposite direction while also hearing horror tales from other combat medics joining their division. Howell (Vince Vaughn), arrives on the shores of Okinawa, and when they stand at the bottom of a cliff, the POV camera looks up at the vertical incline as if it were a colossus, an unconquered monster that could easily vanquish the anxious, inexperienced soldiers. Halfway into the movie, a fresh platoon, led by CPT Jack Glover (Sam Worthington) and Sgt. There's a moment in 'Hacksaw Ridge' which finally convinced me we were in the midst of a great war film, where everything which preceded it felt justified, canceling out its formulaic trappings.
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