Painfully slow and barely credible

Rating: 5/10 (6 February 2016)

The film is not as hunky-dory as it is cracked up to be. On the one hand the storyline is played out as agonizingly and painfully slow as all the excruciating and unbearable pain that the seemingly indestructible Leonardo DiCaprio has to put up with throughout the entire film. His relentless suffering together with the nudity scenes in those freezing temperatures are simply beyond credibility. At some point I thought DiCaprio had been graciously touched by some immortality Indian spell because nobody could have been able to endure such agony. One gut-wrenching scene they could easily have done without is that of the horse plunging with DiCaprio on top over the ravine. That was totally unreal. In my opinion DiCaprio doesn't rightfully deserve the Oscar for best actor for this film because rather than speaking he seems to do nothing but groan and moan throughout the whole film. On the other hand I also found the music deadly dull as it didn't help me submerge myself in the film if this had been at least more engaging. It's also worth mentioning that Tom Hardy could have pronounced his lines more articulately and clearly. There were parts of his speech that I had difficulty understanding.
The Revenant is one of those films I wouldn't put myself to the torture of watching it again when it comes out on DVD, not even to understand Tom Hardy's lines with the aid of the subtitles. It left me unimpressed and what's more it hugely disappointed the great expectations I had built up for this film.