Survival, Revenge, Broken Legs be damned.

Rating: 5/10 (11 January 2016)

In a land where hypothermia isn't a thing, where fire can be started and maintained under any conditions and last all night long without being tended to, where broken legs be damned, where plot lines are half explained and loosely woven together, comes this epic tale of survival, revenge, and camping out in the chest cavity of a horse THE REVENANT! The performance by Tom Hardy and to a lesser degree Leo saved this thing. Will Poulter was also good. A little suspension of disbelief is fine, enjoyable even, but glossing over what it would actually take to survive the conditions portrayed in this film is a bit much. It is incredibly unlikely that anyone could survive Leo's ordeals, starting with the bear attack. And can a brother get a date/place stamp every so often? The characters seemed to go from the heart of the Rockies to the high plains in a matter of hourson foot. The storyline with the Native American chief guy looking for his daughter, and Leo's back story of living and breeding with the Pawnee could have been fleshed out more, there is something more there, but instead we got a sprinkling around the edges and not much more. Not a terrible movie, but there is no need to run out and see it.