Revenant is the latest offering starring Leonardo Di Caprio. Set during the frontier years of the colonisation of America, this movie is a very deliberately paced revenge story. Pretty much, Tom Hardy kills Di Caprio's son and now he must track him through the landscape for his vengeance.
If the story sounds simple, that is because it is. The drama in this movie isn't set-up by a convoluted story full of twists and turns, but by the characters themselves. The story sets up all of their prejudices and motivations and then lets things unfold, for the most part. And it isn't just the characters standing against each other, as the very landscape and the locals all have their part to play.
The landscape in this movie is stunning. The shots and the music are their to support the view of the landscape and how unforgiving and harsh this is. From snowy expanses to raging rapids, this film goes out of its way to show different bits and pieces of the landscape. Occasionally, the story does feel like it takes backseat just because the filmmakers wanted to show some shot.
When the story takes a backseat like this, the film can really start to feel like it drags out. There are definitely times that it feels like parts of the movie could have easily been cut and not lost anything on the revenge story. Their are allot of subplots in the movie and, although they all kind-of come together, they don't really have a big impact on the story.
So overall, The Revenant is good. It does run long and it could have done to be a bit tighter of a story experience. However, it did set its own deliberate slow pace which for the most part works.
4 out of 5 freshly hunted waffles.
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