Friday, 6 May 2016

The Revenant (2015) 6/10

Starring : Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
Director : Alejandro G Inarritu
Running Time : 157 mins

After being mauled by a bear while on a fur trading expedition, frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is left for dead by his colleague John Fitzgerald (Hardy) and is forced to make his way through the wilderness while mortally wounded in the hope of getting back to civilization and gain the urgent medical attention he so desperately needs.

This is an okay movie, and the bear attack scene was fantastic, but it just seemed to drag on for no apparent reason. Some scenes could easily have been cut down or gotten rid of altogether, and if this was even half an hour shorter it could have been a much tighter story with a much more approachable runtime. Fans of Hardy and DiCaprio might be disappointed by the limited screen time they share together (percentagewise it’s probably less than ten percent), and Pulter is pretty much wasted in this role.

You’ll like this if you liked : 127 Hours



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