2.5 hours of pained grunting. Nothing but torture porn wrapped around a lifeless plot

Rating: 4/10 (16 January 2020)

How on earth this movie has a score of 8.0 at the time of writing I just do not know.
The plot is paper thin, followed by a slow-motion 90 minute chase scene, with a revenge climax.
Here's the movie in four lines:
Trappers attacked by indians and survivors run
DeCaprio gets mauled by a bear and the man left to tend to him predicatably betrays him and kills man's son.
DeCaprio grunts agonisingly across the snowy landscape for 90 minutes
Kills man.
The movie was drab from start to finish. All the flashback attempts at injecting depth were cliched and lacking in any depth whatsoever. I literally didn't care from start to finish if DeCaprio's character lived or died.
We were supposed to care about the plight of the indians, but any chance of that was ruined by the fact that other indians were also vicious psychos.
The only two remotely sympathetic chaaracters were the two youngsters, and arguably the one who survived.
I think people confuse fantastic camerawork and incredible landscape for a good movie, but almost everything about this movie was ridiculous, and nothing more so, than the fact that in a sub-zero snow terrain, every single character seems to spend hours wading through icy swamps, stream and rivers wearing leather and furs, without so much as a shiver.
Crappy, crappy piece of rubbish. Finally a DeCapio film I didn't like.