[sammyg2]

I wanted my 2 hours and 36 minutes back.
When I see a movie I like I'll watch it again later on. There are many films that I find entertaining and have seen many times over the years.
But I have no desire to watch the revenant again. None whatsoever.
just the opposite.

It wasn't that the movie was all bad, just disturbing with little redeeming value and zero entertainment.
The lighting, contrast and dreary twilight effect got old quickly.
The point was made after 10 minutes, life was horribly difficult and dangerous back then in the frontier and even worse for this guy. The movie didn't have to be repeat that point constantly.
The lead character was immortal and could survive gunshots, knife wounds, bear attacks, starvation, infection, and hypothermia. He suffered from all those things but nothing could kill him. Any mortal man would have died in that movie a dozen times, but not our hero. There really were no good guys in the film, one almost developed but he got killed easily.
It just got really old.
The revenant was beating a dead horse, literally.

The way the movie was shot reminded me of "a man on fire" or "the book of eli" where a potentially good movie was ruined by the directors' attempt to prove how creative he is.
Instead they just proved they were the self-indulgent artsy-fartsy type.
At least in those denzel movies the acting and action made up for much of the bad effects.

Don't get me wrong, the revenant director wasn't tarantino horrible. Taranino is so bad he has his own cult following.

This guy just made a film worse than it should have been.
this movie had most of what was necessary to be great, it just missed.

IOW I didn't care for it.