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Sensationalist cinematic garbage. Made up parts of Doss' background, left out his service on Guam and Leyte, unrealistic fighting scenes such as a soldier one arming a 20 pound B.A.R. mowing down charging Japanese troops while using the dead body of a comrade as a Captain America shield to absorb incoming bullets. Ridiculous nonsense like this riddles throughout the film. Overdramatic acting taking away from an emotional impact the graphic violence might have had (if properly directly). The absolute worst thing about this film was how they refused to accurately portray Ross' actions because the film makers didn't think the audience would find it believable. Thats right, his heroism was so hardcore, they didnt think you would believe it, so they just gave you the viewer a "softer" ending, one where Ross didn't give up his stretcher spot to another soldier, got shot in the arm, and had to crawl his way back off the ridge for five hours in darkness. Ross deserved better. He should've gotten a mini-series, not this gore-porn religious propaganda made by idiots who care more about the dollar than telling a realistic war story. Andrew Garfield was excellent as always, I will say that much. "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can only tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil." -Tim O Brein; The Things They Carried

What makes this movie so haunting is the real events were even worse than this.

Horrifying. You watch it one time and its so vivid you will never forget it. Best movie Ive ever seen that I have no desire to watch again. This needs to be shown in schools because of its potential to traumatize you, it's one of those movies.

Go see it. It's not a masterpiece but it's two hours of fast paced fun. King Ghidora and Godzilla look badass and the CGI is impressive