A beautiful, universal movie

Rating: 8/10 (14 February 2016)

The Revenant is another snowy western that's come out recently, the other being The Hateful Eight. They are very different kind of movies though: H8 is much about killing and talking, Revenant about not dying and not talking!
Anyways, The Revenant is a good and beautiful movie that tells a story which is interesting in a way. See, this is one of those movies in which some character is a little evil already and only needs a tiny push to fall to "the dark side", if you will. Same as in Saruman in LOTR and Sgt. Barnes in Platoon. Tom Hardy does a really good job playing a bad-ass character as usual. That character (Fitzgerald) also loses his honor and becomes a coward...
As I said, a major part of the movie is plainly about Hugh Glass trying to live on to avenge his son. Leonardo DiCaprio acts realistically but I'm not sure if this is the movie he should get the Oscar from. That should've happened already. Not a single character in this movie really does anything I could REALLY remember them from. They do what they're supposed to but there is not much interesting dialogue like in, well Hateful Eight for example. Instead, what we find is an amazing story of survival, betrayal and revenge that is detached from the characters themselves. It's quite universal.
I love the cinematography here and the movie is very enjoyable to watch, really. I long to go camping in clean and fresh forests and mountains, drink straight from a river. Maybe I'll just pack my bags and head for Lapland. Maybe I got a little carried away. Nice views and excellent work there whatsoever.
Finally, if there is something that bothered me during watching The Revenant, it's the sound mixing/editing. I often felt like I was listening to three layers of sounds and music. Even the silent parts often had some sort of weird humming or screeching in the background. It made me feel nervous in the bad way. The actual sounds of the movie + the score were enough. Someone fix that for me?
8/10