Forty minutes of plot; two hours of filler

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2016)

Let me start by saying that I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was terrific in this film and well deserved his Oscar for the role. However, there is so little plot in the movie, and some really, really improbable situations where his character is rescued and/or escapes that my overall feeling was one of real disappointment. Tom Hardy spends most of the movie talking like he's got a mouthful of hardtack and even when you can clearly understand him, isn't really saying much. The director, to me at least, seemed to understand how little plot and story there actually is in the movie by using scenes of a river or clouds as links between scenes and then lingering and lingering on those scenes of a river or clouds. There is also gore aplenty to help stretch out the running time. Aside from DiCaprio, the praise heaped on this movie mystifies me.