Grimossfer
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Teddie Blake
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
bturner008
The film is breathtakingly beautiful ... As for the movie, did I say that it is breathtakingly beautiful? That's about it. It didn't take very long for me to figure out that The Revenant is a awful rehash of The Man in the Wilderness (1971) - unfortunately without Richard Harris. To think that DiCaprio won Best Actor nod for this movie demonstrates how weak that year (2015) was for film. He wasn't even the best actor in the movie, let alone being rewarded for crawling around and grunting for most of the movie. Geez, even the grizzly gave a better performance.Did I say that the photography in the film was breathtakingly beautiful?
xahnegrey
Story line was muddled, what in the hell was this crew doing, why etc.. ?couldn't understand half of what was said.
many of the characters looked alike so hard to tell who was who.great bear attack scene but really, a grizzly would have torn his head off and sucked the blood right out of him..so how did he survive 2 attacks- with no infection ?
I liked de caprio but really some of this was too far fetched to believe ex. riding a pony off a 80 foot cliff..landing in a tree...again, no breakien bones? beautiful setting, and filming .the original was easier to follow..made more sense.
bheadher
I can see why it went to streaming sites so quickly. In my humble opinion, the only reason why it made some money, is because many people were hyped (conned) into going to see it.Frankly, The Revenant looked to me more like a poor imitation of Jeremiah Johnson. Most of the movie is slow, and really drab. Most of the time I acually felt like I was watching a movie shot in black and white, there is that little color in it...If they wanted to do a survivalist movie, they should have cast a survivalist...
pjbellew
Iñárritu is a hack, desperately trying to be Tarkovsky, but with absolutely none of the poetry or insight of that great director. The cinematography is pleasant enough, if pseudo majestic National Geographic imagery is your thing (I would personally rather watch cardboard exist).
