Earth, wind and a terrible movie

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2016)

The enormous hype for this movie sent me into the cinema with huge expectations. However no more than 5 minutes into the movie I was bored. The next 2 and a half hours were spent wishing I had gone to watch paint dry instead. For some reason good film making has now been confused with good cinematography. There is no doubt that this film is beautiful but the excessive reliance on the landscape as an extra character adds an unnecessary hour to the movie. Many scenes were completely pointless and didn't add anything. Watching Leo set up a camp and crawling through the snow for 2 hours is really not that interesting. Iñárritu seemed to throw everything he knew about telling a story out the window and instead relied on using the cast and crew's suffering in the mountains to sell a movie rather than making a good story. All in all this film is clearly successful because of the names attached and not for being a good movie.