Good visuals on an unnecessary movie

Rating: 5/10 (18 April 2017)

The movie I'm reviewing is called The Revenant. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and he won an Oscar for this movie. The movie is basically about a pioneer making his way back from a gruesome accident with a bear and tracking down the man who left him (Tom Hardy) for revenge. I thought the movie was pretty average and I didn't get the massive praise it got from both people and critics. I thought that the shots were very pretty and the cinematography was great. But the story was something that should not have been put to screen. The majority of the film was watching Leonardo DiCaprio crawl through the mud and run away from people. The movie stressed the reality of the scenario,by having DiCaprio recover immediately and take a while to heal, showing the harshness of the time and setting. But then they contradict themselves by having him ride off a cliff and survive pretty much unscathed.
I love dialogue in my movies, and this movie did a poor job of delivering meaningful dialogue to the audience. From the beginning you knew who everyone was and nothing surprised you. The dialogue was all either misunderstood by me because of the garbled accents, or the fact that it was essentially meaningless. When there was dialogue of course, as I said before most of the movie is the title character crawling in the mud and surviving brutal conditions.
Overall I thought the movie was good because of the directing and cinematography, but I never really found myself caring about the story or being more invested than I am in any other revenge plot.