The Revenant is a cinematic experience that is worth seeing, it's just not amazing as some make it out to be.

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2016)

When a movie like this hops into the IMDb top 250 and keeps rising with each passing day, I gotta see what the big deal is. I have been aware of this movie for quite sometime and I was already curious when I saw the trailer, but now that it had a high rating, it had my attention (see what I did there?).
Forget about the plot synopsis, I'm just going to tell you my thoughts on the movie. It's pretty good. It obviously looks incredible and Emmanuel Lubezki is probably going to win his third Oscar in a row (after Gravity and Birdman).
What struck me the most about this ambitious film is how well it captures the feeling of being out in the cold, just trying to survive with the possibility that you might not make it home. With a running time of 156 minutes, the film feels like it's four hours long. The pacing is intentionally slow and really allows us to suffer alongside Dicaprio as he endures plenty of discomfort (saying it like that feels like an understatement).
However, there was very little about the story and characters that resonated with me. It's not bad, but I didn't feel like it was great either. It also doesn't help that you can't understand what they're saying part of the time. Tom Hardy does a lot of talking in one scene early on but all I understood were select words here and there. I get that they were probably trying to go for a sense of realism, but if a character is talking for a few minutes, what they have to say is most likely important and we should at the very least here most of it. But I didn't and think there are many others that are in the same boat.
So be sure to check out The Revenant, I didn't find it amazing, but you might and even if you don't, it is certainly a unique experience.