Wall Street Journel:
In ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ Mel Gibson directs Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, who joins World War II, but his faith won’t let him use a gun.
Just because “Hacksaw Ridge,” directed by Mel Gibson, is about a faith-driven, peace-loving conscientious objector during World War II, don’t expect it to dial down the battlefield gore. Desmond Doss was a real soldier who won the right to go to the front lines without carrying a weapon, in keeping with his patriotic urge to enlist and his Seventh-day Adventist beliefs.
In the movie, Army officials pressure Doss ( Andrew Garfield) to quit if he won’t carry a rifle to defend himself and his platoon mates. They try to court-martial him, and they jail him, before grudgingly sending him as a medic to the Battle of Okinawa.
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I found this article about this movie today in the Wall Street Journal and it just so happened that I saw the trailer at the movies today too. I liked it a lot and I think I'm going to go see it.