Great Movie But Consultants dropped the ball on survivor skills

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2016)

This is a great movie and certainly worth your time but there were so many blatant mistakes in reality that after the first few, I started actually watching for them (to pick them apart). Whomever the wilderness-survival consultant was, on this film was daft. You don't have to be any kind of outdoors person to notice.
I found myself comparing it to the great movie JEREMIAH JOHNSON which is an epic woodsman - survival - frontier - wilderness movie. ( and since Im being reminiscent when is any one going to finally re-do Mrs Mike?) Leonardo DiCaprio is a fantastic actor with limitless scope but obviously he has never, ever gone fishing. WHy would an actor allow himself to look like such a fool so many times in one movie? Was he told they would edit those parts out? Sushi may be trendy ( is it still? ) but you would bleed like a sieve if you bit into a raw fish that had not been scaled.
There are other major mistakes in this film and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see them, they're obvious. You would only have to go sledding in the winter when you're a child to be able to see the huge mistakes slap you, in your frozen little red cheeks.
Movies, of course, stretch the bounds of possibilities and I DO remember sitting my children down after they saw ROBOCOP and explaining to them, that in the REAL world, you cant shoot someone 22 times and rip their arms off and expect the hospital to fix you up! Thats the movies.
This film too, may lead some intelligence-challenged person to *chuckle* have sushi al fresco~ and in this world, it wouldn't surprise me if that person could SUE for being mislead.
I also have to make the point that you obviously don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that freezing cold water can kill real quick and ironically Id like to point out that Leonardo DiCaprio explained this in detail in the film TITANIC.
So I wonder if the handsome character in The Revenant actually may have had super human alien DNA which enabled to him to withstand the harshest circumstances that Nature can throw at him because, it was literally super human resistance.
Finally, put that all aside and ignore the "misses" on realism, and this is a great movie with a action packed story, and a well written script that very much captures the uncivilized behaviour and survival skills of men at that time period.
It has MANY memorable scenes that absolutely make it worth buying and Tom Hardy hasn't got enough recognition for his performance which was outstanding, raw, menacing and made me downright hate him. Which was a total switch from his role in LAWLESS. If Tom Hardy hasn't literally "arrived" yet, he is on his way to the top with a bullet. His versatility as an actor and his handsome mug is comparable to Harrison Ford and Robert Redford. Mark my words.
This movie is absolutely worth seeing and adding to your collection.