Saying this movie is Overrated is an understatement

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2017)

The academy has been known to give its awards to undeserving films over the years. Classic and acclaimed films such as Shawshank Redemption or Goodfellas have been passed over for other films. The Revenant certainly takes the cake. Leonardo is a great actor but for some reason the Academy decided to give him a best actor Oscar in this film over his performance in The Wolf of Wall Street.
This film has very little substance to it besides the fact that it is about revenge but to see how this revenge unfolds we have watch a long and dull film. A number of viewers raved about the nature and cinematography which was good but award an Oscar for cinematography and be done with it. Instead this ended up being the impetus for garnering praise for a very mediocre film. It absolutely bewilders and even saddens me that watching footage of nature for a quite a while I might add makes a good film. It doesn't matter that the plot was weak and one dimensional, it was hard to understand what was said, it was too long, boring and fruitless as long as the film is 'scenic'. Using that logic a porno film could be made in nature with beautiful scenery and be deemed a great film, it might even win a few Oscars.
Perhaps those who are blinded by this 'nature' and scenery should watch the Discovery Channel and National Geographic more often or take a trip or two to some scenic areas in New Zealand or Switzerland. Maybe then you could watch movies and accurately judge its worth. This was a very mediocre film but at least Leonardo finally got an Oscar.