Amazed at the Bear scene but little else

Rating: 3/10 (31 May 2016)

I was disappointed in this film as it received so much praise and won Oscars, I should have known really as most often critics choices are miles away from what us ordinary folk think. The scene with the Grizzly bear was incredible and I found myself wondering how on earth they did it (I have since found out how). No doubt about Leonardo's performance as he was superb but the film over all was dull and often defied reality. No one would have survived time in freezing waters and then coming back up on icy sub zero temperature land.
This film was based on a real person who did survive an attack by a Grizzly but the way he was attacked in this film, he would have been left with a broken spine and paralysed for sure.
I also found a lot of the violence unnecessarily graphic and there is no way that people in the 1800s used modern day profanity, but it seems that many film makers today want to re-write how history was for some bizarre reason.
So over all a disappointment.