Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Really this was the one that Leo won an Oscar for?
I have only given this film a two because I can’t wholly dislike a film wherein Tom Hardy is doing a strange character performance. I like Hardy and find that as an actor he can do no wrong, he is easily the best part of the film even though I never really took him seriously as a villain.
I can’t really understand how anyone could enjoy this film, it has sizeable pacing issues, it is relentlessly bleak, including all sorts of needless scenes I guess just for the sake of it, and it is also incredibly pretentious thinking simply by existing that it is going to reinvent the wheel.
Moreover, DiCaprio has given many fantastic performances over the years, but in all honesty I don’t think he was very good here. His character isn’t particularly engageable not just because he is so bland but also because he is not likeable at all and the film doesn’t do much to make you like him.
By the time the film had reached its climax I was finding it hard to stay awake.
Overall, a deeply overrated film.
Pros.
Tom Hardy
I liked the period setting
Cons.
DiCaprio
The pacing
The bleakness/ the pretention
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