A suffocating realistic Western that follows the steps of "Jeremiah Johnson"

Rating: 9/10 (4 February 2016)

What a great production! Cinematography is amazing, showing all the beauty and the danger of nature. Camera movements and editing are also very skillful. Leonardo DiCaprio in the main role, a trekker who knows both nature and Indians deeply, and Tom Hardy as despicable Fitzgerald lead the great cast. The brutal story has the same spirit of another snowy Western that depicts the fight for surviving, Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford's "Jeremiah Johnson", but with some very realistic scenes that probably could not be made in the 70's. The spectator feels suffocated. The only drawback of the fabulous production is that the unrealistic recovery of DiCaprio's character does not fit to the harsh and much more realistic tone of the movie.