Wind, Water, Blood, and Gore.

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2020)

Iñárritu does a wonderful job capturing the beauty of nature. Water and wind are expertly displayed in this film. Human faces are grizzled and intense.
The violence and nastiness are excessive. This could be a commentary on how beautiful yet harsh nature is, but it comes off as manufactured. A balance between light and dark elements in not achieved. The main character becomes an action cliche due to the volume of certain death escapes.
The Revenant is a case in "less is more". Tone down the violence, cut out a few inescapable situations, and we would be left in awe of nature's shear beauty.