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Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2016)

Unlike the Pollack / Redford classic from 1972 this movie lacks a proper narrative.
True, the takes in crude nature are impressive.
But the story is thin and pumped up. Within the first 45 min or so we have not 1, not 2, we have 3 incidents which almost killed Glass the protagonist. He is left almost dead, mute, water is pouring out of his throat as he drinks and then he has to watch his son getting killed unable to move a limb, only whispering his protest.
The movie starts with a flooding, at some point we have an avalanche, Glass gets buried and rises from the grave, he is born again naked in something that really reminds me of a horse womb.
What is supposed to drive the Revenant is merely a weak revenge plot. Not convincing at all.
To keep the audience entertained violence is used very calculatedly. A chopped of finger here, a bloody bit of an ear there, flying in the air, as the villain spits it out.
Antagonist is pure evil like the hostile nature itself.
Altogether the archaic conflict between man and an evil environment is told in an unsatisfactory way, the movie does not go beyond mere postures. Particularly bad: end scene which largely reproduced Ridly Scoot's Gladiator ending shot.
For me clearly the weakest script great film maker Inarritu wrote or made into a movie so far.