I can respect it,but not enjoy it.

Rating: 6/10 (20 January 2017)

After all the hype I expected to be overwhelmed by "The Revenant" but sadly I wasn't. Yes the scenery was awesome,nature was red and raw in tooth and claw,it was obviously jolly cold and Mr di Caprio struggled manfully wrapped up in a bearskin and spent the night inside a horse and generally suffered for his art but somehow he didn't inspire much sympathy from me. I suspect the film has a more appreciative audience in the United States and Canada where the term "frontier" still has some meaning. Regrettably it made me think of the New Christie Minstrels' song "Four wheels on my wagon" in a lot of places. Somehow all that snow and freezing water,all that suffering and brutality and "nature is pure - only man is evil" stuff whilst not exactly passing me by did leave me unaffected. Yes it was crisply shot,well - lit and the sound was excellent,but the unrelenting evil on display eventually got to me and made me more or less indifferent to Mr Glass's fate. Perhaps I am too sensitive. Whatever,"The Revenant" is obviously worthy of the viewers' respect but it did not induce in me the slightest desire to watch it again.