A cold movie.

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2016)

The highly appraised and one of the Oscars' favorite left me as cold as the landscape you see throughout. The big question that everyone will be asking themselves is: will Leonardo Di Caprio finally win an Oscar? On the evidence of this performance he shouldn't. For the second year in succession, Eddie Redmayne has to be the favorite to win the statue.
As for the movie, I think it will fall short of an Oscar too, but it's hard to see which one deserves it more than the Revenant. The bridge of spies would be the other favorite in my eyes, but it does not feel like an Oscar worthy movie. It's hard to tell really, and maybe irrelevant anyway.
The point is that The Revenant is a magnificent movie from the point of view of the photography, and I can only imagine the nightmare it must have been to record such a movie in absolute freezing conditions. But in the end, what matters is the emotions you feel when you watch it, and in that department it left completely uninspired. I understand that some people will like it a lot, but to me, it lacks punch and substance. Leonardo Di Caprio was probably crippled a little too long to make it really entertaining.