'...and the World Record for the Longest Distance Crawled on Front goes to...'

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2019)

Iñárritu's selection of dramatic and kinetic camera shots paired with Lubezki's cinematography makes this a very attractive film. DiCaprio's fight with the grizzly bear is an electrifying exhibition of cinema. Hardy exhibits such bitterness and hardship that I rank his performance very marginally above DiCaprio's. Nonetheless, DiCaprio's perseverant and relentless Hugh Glass is a worthy winner of an Oscar - which should have really been awarded for his sublime performance in Django Unchained.
Afterthought: Had to watch the film in subtitles as Hardy is very difficult to understand. The sound quality on Netflix was imbalanced which slightly spoiled it for me.