At 156 minutes,The Revenant is a challenge. At 187 minutes, The Hateful Eight is only to be approached with full stomach and empty bladder. It’s time film-makers realised epic doesn’t have to mean eternalThe Revenant, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Oscar-hunting epic,is a film that does many unique and wonderful things, but perhaps its greatest feat is how it manages to be simultaneously breathtaking and yawn-inducing.execute no mistake: the film contains sensational moments. But at heart it’s a simple man-v-nature yarn that runs along much the same lines as Touching the Void, and All Is Lost or Gravity. The contrast is that the latter three all had the good sense to appreciate that nerve-shredding intensity tends to sag at around the 100-minute brand. The Revenant obliges us to sit watching Leonardo DiCaprio’s beard accumulate frost – as fine a sight as that is – for over two and a half hours before the credits roll.
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Source: theguardian.com