Review of The Revenant (2015) by Vagabundo — 27 Jul 2016
First the good news. The cinematography is stunning - stark, bold, lumnescent. It owns the screen in a way I seldom see. Now for the rest. Based on a true story covers a multitude of sins. To keep it short and sweet, the plot is ludicrous and unbelievable and totally dependent on one outlandish coincidence after another.
The character development is foolish, people made out of cardboard. All this leads to a climax out of a pulpy comic book. My one question to tye screenwriter. In this vast and frigid, white expanse of emptiness, how is it that all of the principals inevitably camped within a few hundred yards of each other and came across each other without fail for any of the action scenes? Gve me a break.
If you can't see this on the wide screen it deserves, don't bother.
This review of The Revenant (2015) was written by Vagabundo on 27 Jul 2016.
The Revenant has generally received very positive reviews.
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