Can't put my finger on it...

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2016)

When i left this movie I had trouble putting my finger on exactly what I thought about it, but the one conclusive statement was 'Meh'; although annoyingly i couldn't really capture why. It has most of the ingredients I usually dig in a movie. The acting is good. The characters have depth. The story is good. The intro scene with the pelt hunting was awesome directing. The main character is a total bad-ass! Everyone is believable, although it took a little while to get used to Tom Hardy's characters voice, which at first it was hard to understand. It overwhelmingly felt like a Terrance Malik movie (which for the most part I dig). It was brooding and nature was as much of a main character in the film as the actors were portraying. I guess my main gripe was that it was too long. Not the movie as such, but most of the scenes or shots. They just felt like they took too long. Lingering shots of sky, or trees or water, or actors but just a few seconds too long than I think they needed to be to make me feel differently. When done consistently throughout a 2.5 hour film, i think it threw off the pacing in a weird way. It's worth watching definitely. It's pretty and dirty at the same time. You feel the cold and dis-comfort the characters are feeling. DiCaprio is good. Hardy is great.