Overblown and Hard to Believe

Rating: 2/10 (28 February 2016)

Yes, this is a visually beautiful movie. The cinematography is stunning. BUT, I just couldn't get past the unbelievability of this movie. There is no way that any human being could have survived what Leo did in this movie. First of all, it takes place in the high mountains in the dead of a cold, snowy winter. He does not wear gloves and his fingers don't get frost bite; he falls into a frigid grand rapid river, down multiple waterfalls and doesn't instantly freeze to death; he continues crawling around in those wet clothes in the snow and still doesn't freeze to death; he's mauled by a bear, including the bear ripping a giant hole in his throat that the water he drinks pours out of and said bear dying on top of him, and he doesn't bleed to death or get crushed to death; he and his horse take a leap off a 150' cliff, the horse is splattered on the ground but Leo miraculously lands in the top of a tree and somehow survives; need I go on?
The movie is excruciatingly long at 2 1/2 hours. It was torture. I actually tried to kill time in the bathroom. Go see Spotlight instead. That's the Academy Award worthy picture.