Raw, brutal yet breathtakingly beautiful epic

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2016)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"The Revenant" (2015) is in my opinion the best movie of 2015. "Spotlight" was very good, yet "The Revenant" is more visceral experience, one of the kind actually - once seen this movie is hard to forget. Cinenamtography by the great Emmanuel Lubezki was breathtaking - he just delivers viewer to the place and time - "The Revenant" has to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Directing was amazing, and the overall craftsmanship of this movie is simply stunning. And yes, the bear attack scene is brutal and unforgiving - how did they done that? And yet i don't really think that Leonardo DiCaprio was such a sure Oscar winner. His performance is very good in here, he surely got trough a lot during filming, but is that what best performance is all about? The only reason he won is that there weren't really strong contenders last year, given any other year in the past, he wouldn't won.
Overall, "The Revenant" is a great movie, but can be a disappointment for those who are looking for some adventure flick. It has some spirituality themes along, and it's not very easy to sit trough this long 2 h 35 min movie - but it's a damn worth every minute of it.