'The Revenant' puts a strain on you!

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2019)

'The Revenant' is a story being told very draggingly. It has rather slow and emotional music, lots of shots of cold winter nature and close-up shots of the characters and their closer surrounding.

When there's action, it is massively brutal, very bloody, dirty and descriptive. There's not a lot to laugh about in this movie, it's depressing and mentally almost as exhausting for the viewer as for the actors, people involved in making this and for the characters being portrayed.

The awards it won are likely deserved (I won't look up nominees now). But the categories it won in sum up fairly well how much effort went into the production, which is, no doubt, outstanding. The props, costumes and settings make it look very realistic.

The plot is decently good, it's just, as previously stated, very draggingly narrated with a lot of focus on camera work and capturing moments in an artful way.