A slow-burn......with ice.

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2016)

'The Revenant' deserves all the praise for the artistry, cinematography and acting depicted in this film. However, there is a heaviness to this movie, but not in a good way.
To be fair, DiCaprio and Hardy shine with their performances with the latter being the more interesting. The reason why I say that is due to Hardy's character of Fitzgerald just having more dialogue as well as more interactions in the film. This being a story of survival, it's understandable why DiCaprio groans and grunts his way through the movie to the final act. He lacks in dialogue so it's hard to tell what he's thinking rather than what he's doing which is crawling and limping his way back home after a savage bear attack.
Only one person deserved an Oscar for a hand in this film, yet...it shouldn't have been DiCaprio. Alejandro Inarritu won his second Oscar for this as well he should have, cause his directing was brilliant. Of that same year, I saw 'Black Mass', and Johnny Depp's performance in that particular film was far superior than DiCaprio's, hence the reason I found it unfair, cause a nomination for Depp would have mean't another deserving Oscar snub for DiCaprio.
'The Revenant' is still one of the better films of 2015, but it could easily lose an audience just by pacing alone.