"Vengeance will be mine!"

Rating: 4/10 (6 February 2016)

This movie was shot with a very good camera. You can tell by watching the lingering shots of trees. It's got good low light sensitivity as you can tell by certain night time shots.
The revenant has a slick surface. But what's underneath it in the end? It's a story about a man who sets out to enact his revenge on a "bad guy". There's a "bad guy" in this movie who does bad things and this movie's main character wants revenge which he gets in the end. But what does this story show us? What can we see in it? What can we learn from it?
We can see a lot of nasty, uncomfortable stuff. Like a rapist getting his penis cut off. That shows him, right? If he didn't want that, he shouldn't have raped that woman. Just desserts! It's that kind of mentality that this film has and it's rather stupid.
There are some cliché lines like "Revenge won't bring your murdered son back" as well as the most problematic one namely "Revenge should be dished out by God". That last one is just irresponsible in this day and age where in the real world people actually go on killing sprees because they think "God must dish out revenge". The movie just wants to sound more sophisticated and deep than it actually is by having those lines in its script but it just makes it sound more stupid and empty. The movie has nothing to say.
We can't learn anything from this flick. Other than that they make good cameras nowadays and there's no shortage of daft screenplays. No amount of impressive camera work will save a movie if the script is no good. And this movie's script is terrible.