HACKSAW RIDGE movie review

It is one of those you seem "just another war movie" but then I realize, it's not. Mel Gibson preaches on the love of God in the middle of a crisis in 2016's HACKSAW RIDGE starring Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, Teresa Palmer and more. An incredible and heroic story of Desmond Doss, a US-Japan war veteran, coming in Philippine cinemas, February 22.

The first quarter of the movie talks about how Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) was raised in a God-fearing family and how he acquired a moral obligation on serving his country as a medic. His love life with Dorothy Schutte (Teresa Palmer) was an adorable one. Like how we would love our grandfathers tell their story of our grandmothers. It was a good and cheesy love story and will give you giggles and feels. The rise and fall of emotions hits you in the heart.

Teresa Palmer and Andrew Garfield as Dorothy Schutte and Desmond Doss

Being in the military is no easy for anyone, much so for Doss. His skinny physique has made him a joke as a member of the battalion but it did not stop him from pursuing his willingness to serve. Imagine a soldier never handled a weapon as his moral promise but then he fulfilled his obligation to the country and above to continue living for others and himself. His striking speech before the military court is the best I've heard:

Because when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, I took it personal. Everyone I knew was on fire to join up, including me. There were two men in my hometown declared 4-F unfit, they killed themselves cause they couldn't serve. Why, I had a job in a defense plant and I could've taken a deferment, but that ain't right. It isn't right that other men should fight and die, that I would just be sitting at home safe. I need to serve. I got the energy and the passion to serve as a medic, right in the middle with the other guys. No less danger, just... while everybody else is taking life, I'm going to be saving it. With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together.

This will be Andrew Garfield's one of the most memorable roles ever. Saving 75 men from Hacksaw Ridge as Desmond Doss is very physically and emotionally challenging because we're talking about lives here. The dreadful conditions of war are two-way affecting us -- the people who fought on location and people left at their homes. It's also the things that people don't realize that's more valuable than killing. That wars don't bring any good.

* Hacksaw Ridge is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director (Mel Gibson), Actor (Andrew Garfield) and Film Editing.

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THE INTERNSHIP movie review

watch salesmen Nick (Owen Wilson) and Billy (Vince Vaughn) are out of job and they find themselves applying for an internship in the biggest search engine community, Google. in the presence of young minds, the two were outcasts and tagged as dinosaurs in the industry. left with a bunch of young people that cannot acknowledge their presence and skills, they had the chance to prove themselves in the field.

some notes to be presented in THE INTERNSHIP movie, aside from being a funny career movie, it was a dream changer for me as to pursue online career. what else to be loved at the Google office? creativity, app development, thinking community and most of all, FREE stuff! and the work place is at play. it also reminds us of the respect to any of your workmates at any instance. it also shows us to show our strength at any cost that will take us to fight any obstacle in front of us.

there are also a lot of work values demonstrated in the movie. like teamwork, friendliness and respect. though the interns go for a competitive-type of activities, each member were able to present their own skills and be able to raise them at any challenge.

i always find Vince's fluency at any movie he is in as if you can give in to his persuasion. presented in a funny way, you'll be hooked in his insistence of his ideals. he can make the audience buy tickets to this movie.

opening August 14, The Internship is presented by 20th Century Fox, directed by Shawn Levy. distributed by 20th Century Fox (Philippines)

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