That this movie won an Oscar is all the evidence anyone should ever need that Hollywood is bankrupt of ideas. The story is changed so much from the book that it's almost unrecognizable. For starters, the grizzly that mauls him was a guy in a suit with CGI overlaying it, and that's exactly what it looked like. Other animals that appear here and there are equally fake looking—especially a herd of buffalo and a wolf that runs by on fire (for some reason). The entire movie takes place over the course of a winter that features the exact same weather every day. Every day. Cloudy, windy, bleak. Glass' character is almost always wet—and often actually submerged in water—but somehow avoid hypothermia even though his clothes are also damp. In one scene, he crawls inside a dead horse to get warm—after stripping naked for some reason. In another, he takes three shots with a muzzle-loading pistol without reloading. He falls off a high cliff with his horse and somehow lives. While he still can't walk, he crawls into a river to escape from Indians, falls over a huge waterfall, and crawls out suddenly able to walk. Did I mention the weather? And at least an hour of close-ups of DiCaprio's face breathing or sleeping. I could go on for a long time about how terrible this movie is.