Conscientious

Hacksaw Ridge

Crit

Oh, come on: how does this have an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes? It's just a gimmick (soldier who won't carry a gun) thrust among war movie clichés old (one member of every white American ethnicity, plus a brain, a bigot, etc.) and more recent (what I'd call the poetry of carnage: slo-mo, detailed viscera shots, bullets coming out of nowhere through helmet and skull).

And because it's Mel, the uncompromising man of peace is valorized by staying peaceful amid grotesque violence toward him and everyone else.

Meh. I don't really need any more of these.

Trailers

• Logan--Wolverine with a daughter equivalent.