Oscar to DiCaprio hurts acting

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2016)

Let's face it: everything Leo did in this movie I could have done. Eat raw meat, raw fish? No prob. Crawl inside a (fake) dead horse? Brave bad weather? What did he do that the average actor couldn't do? I literally laughed out loud when he swung his wobbly arm trying to chop a branch with a tomahawk. You see the muscles confused when called upon to do this manual labor. Toss him upon a pile of supermodels and he's a natural, but grab a shovel? Which end? Compare Leo with Spencer Tracy or Steve McQueen, two actors from real life. They worked, served in the military, etc. When they do things, I believe they are doing things. Leo's Oscar lowers the standard of acting excellence to whoever can bear extreme conditions when they're otherwise used to yachts, caviar, and Wolf of Wall St. living. Inarritu worked around this for the sake of the DiCaprio brand, but imagine Keaton spitting and screeching his way through Birdman. Are you saying he would have won? Let me put it to you this way, and then I'll thank you for your time: Leo Dicaprio cannot act.