A very long journey

Rating: 6/10 (19 July 2016)

This is a story of a trapper in the 1800's who is double crossed, left for dead and has to find his way out of the rugged wilderness.
The film opens with a great action scene. All the action in the film is top notch, edge of the seat.
The scenery is stunningly beautiful and the characters are quickly fleshed out.
I didn't really feel the harshness of the environment, people wander out of freezing streams with hardly a shiver and force march for miles like they are strolling around the park.
Leonardo gives a great performance and I did really care about the character and I was rooting for him. However, he take a massive amount of physical punishment. This goes on to such an extent that I became desensitised to the character's pain by about half way through and really stopped caring when he was winged for the the umpteenth time.
A good adventure film, a bit low on action for such a long film. Not really my cup of tea.