Revenge too little too late

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2015)

This movie reminds me why "Cape Fear", "Gladiator", and "Cast Away" are great and this one not. The first half hour is crowded with fight scenes and bear attacks which are so brutal that making the remaining 2 hours quite boring.
Look at Cape Fear and see how Robert De Niro revenges his anger on Nick Nolte (the lawyer betrays him). Look at Gladiator and see how the images of the dead wife of Russell Crowe come and go with his fate. Tom Hanks in Cast Away also shows how one man survives in extreme conditions.
The Revenant tries to put these elements into one but fail to be resonant. You either go deeper in Leonardo's history and his dead wife memories and reveal his past, or spend more time and climax on Leonardo's revenge to his fellows. The final duel between Leonardo and Tom Hardy is not fulfilling given the bloody opening.
Leonardo and Tom Hardy are great actors, still cannot save the movie. The survival part is simply too long, and the revenge part is too little and too late. My stars are for the actors only.