Review of The Revenant (2015) by Edeltraud — 12 Jan 2016

If Christian Bale had made this movie he would've dropped 50 pounds to play the role that Leo DiCaprio took on. That's just one of the suspension of belief issues that cropped up in The Revenant. I did enjoy the movie, I love outdoor adventures, but so many technical issues cropped up, it became laughable after a while.

Not to mention, the director added a good 30-45 minutes of "preciousness" with a lingering camera on a bloody patch of snow. (Nevermind the gory, gory, and gorier porno stuff. Really,close ups of nasty consumption of raw whatevers? Not necessary!).

Without spoilers, but with cues that those who've seen the movie will get, here are the fact-based, technical issues:

A bear mauling might not kill you but the encounters with cold definitely would do you in -- especially some of the dunkings, right?

A starving indigenous person waiting around in a camp for a white guy to deliver a sandwich? HUH? This person knows how to track, hunt, survive etc.without a Subway delivery.

When you rip the entrails out of a freshly killed animal when the weather is cold, there's a lot steam. (This was a big miss on the part of the director.).

No one builds a 700 pound litter to haul a guy out of the woods. Ridiculous.

How many men do you send out on a posse to catch a bad guy? One guy & an invalid? I never saw a posse that wasn't 5, 6, or 7 guys.

You get the idea ... interesting concept, nice to have drama without a lot of technology, but so many cliches, poor outdoorsmanship and waaaay too long.