Review of The Revenant (2015) by City8Grl — 22 Jan 2016

Entertaining and visually interesting.However, when making a movie about survival in nature it would be prudent to consult with a survivalist and/or a naturalist.I was quite distracted by the unrealistic portrayal of the events and the scenery.

You have people walking in valleys,forests,on rocky mountaintops in winter,in no particular meaningful order, let alone with no realistic timeline for anyone to have covered that much ground or altitude.

Foothills,plains and high rocky mountain terrain all look really nice but it makes no sense. At one point you even have people walking in a rainforest type biome that in no way corresponds to the others(environments both on east and west side of the Rocky Mountains).

Most of the scenes,supposedly in the remote wilderness, have disturbed/trampled snow all around. There are many scenes of people tramping around in the water and then presumably surviving outside,with no shelter in wet clothes? Ten minutes in cold water and muscle function is lost so the scene where the protagonist floats down the river in winter and then sleeps on the bank when he crawls out is just ridiculous.

The seeming ignorance around portraying the events in a somewhat realistic manner detracts from this movie greatly for me.