Review of The Revenant

The Revenant (I) (2015)
7/10
Drab
5 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I have never seen a movie more void of colors. Occasionally there is a pale blue sky; beyond that get ready for 2.5 hours of greys and browns; cold and misery.

The movie is ostensibly about trappers, but there is virtually no content along those lines. 10 seconds in we are already into ultra-violence, and that theme never stops. Leo is mauled, choked, stabbed, shot at and he even falls off a cliff. He barely speaks or ambulates throughout. Instead, we get long hallucinatory sequences full of magical Indians who inhabit the spirit realm (Hollywood loves their magical Indians!)

Toward the end, I really didn't care. There was only one thin story line, revenge, and we all knew how that was going to turn out.

***NOT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED***
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