I felt bad for the Bear

Rating: 9/10 (23 February 2016)

The Bear was just trying to protect her cubs, of course she attacked, and then instead of playing dead after the first attack, the idiot takes a shot at her, thus instigating the 2nd attack - now there are two orphaned cubs wandering the woods, did they survive, did some kindly person take them in like in Born Free, are they plotting their revenge for the death of their Mother? - unanswered questions I'll never know the answers to - and I won't even get into what happened to the poor horse, except that I now wonder if the inside of a horse smells as bad as the inside of a Tonton.
Anyway, The Revenant is a beautifully shot movie and DiCaprio acts the heck out of it, but at over 2 and a half hours, it is way to long for such a simple story, most of the film consists of Hugh Glass crawling through the snow in order to survive and to exact revenge on the man who left him for dead - the survival story is good, but gets stretched out beyond the point of reason - we get it, Glass is a survivor. I also had a problem with the beginning of the film which just jumps right into an Indian battle without establishing who the characters were or why we should care about them, and the ending in which Glass decides at the last moment to let the Indians do his killing for him because that makes him a better person somehow. The Revenant from all prognostications is the film that will finally get Leonardo DiCaprio his Best Actor Oscar, with that I am more than OK with as he should have gotten one a long time ago, however I think he has made better movies than this one.