My thoughts

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2016)

I watched this and the Hateful eight back-to-back, and I enjoyed this film much better. The directing is brilliant because the way that this film is shot the images are a piece of artwork in themselves. The director use a long shot duration and couple this with a good usage of sound the film is brilliant in it's directing style. The performances from the actors are also brilliant, Leonardo DiCaprio is fantastic in this film because the performance that he gives as Hugh Glass is very good, even though he doesn't speak much but this reminds me of the character of Jason Bourne with the protagonist who hardly speaks. Tom Hardy is also fantastic, because both actors add a sense of realistic vibe to each character. However this is not a flawless film in my opinion because I have a hard time believing that Hugh Glass would have survived a bear attack of that scale if it was that brutal like film makes out. The other thing I have a problem with is the final fight although well shot, the fight would again have resulted in both characters being dead because Hugh wouldn't have had several knife wounds without a lot of blood. Other than that this is a perfect film and is with anyone's money to go and watch because this is brilliant.