Crawling, Grimacing and Wincing - rinse and repeat

Rating: 4/10 (24 August 2016)

I feel compelled to write a review because this movie was so hyped, and I was so utterly disappointed after wasting 2+ hours watching it. I did feel that the opening scenes (up to the point where DiCaprio's character is mauled by a grizzly bear) where compelling, and caught my interest. Sadly however, the remaining part of the film, not so compelling ... and in fact, quite awful. I did love the cinematography of the movie, but that alone doesn't make the film worth watching.
I suggest you read other critical critiques of this movie for a more detailed description of where this film goes wrong, my simple advice however, is this: if you watch this movie, be prepared to see MANY scenes of DiCaprio's character crawling, grimacing, wincing in pain, unrealistically surviving near death experiences, and culminating in00 a big revenge scene at the end (gee Wally, I didn't see that coming). Frankly, I couldn't wait for the movie to be over. Looking back, I find it hard to understand how the director (Iñárritu) gets such high praise for this movie given the screenplay (which he co- wrote) was over-simplistically and story-line poorly developed.