--- --- # The Honest Trailer for _The Revenant_ Shows It Was Actually Kind of Boring  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 29, 2016 8:05 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 29, 2016 8:05 PM UTC _The Revenant_ may have been this year’s awards season darling, but that didn’t stop the team over at Screen Junkies from having a go at it. The [Best Picture nominee](http://time.com/4234305/honest-trailer-oscars-best-picture-nominees/) became the latest film to receive the [honest trailer treatment](http://time.com/4268336/honest-trailers-superman-batman/) on Tuesday. “From [Leonardo DiCaprio](http://time.com/4252662/girl-scout-cookies-leonardo-dicaprio-meme/)…comes a production that put the cast through physical and mental torture to film, and put the audience through two and a half hours of mild boredom to watch,” the voiceover begins. **Read More:** [Here’s How the Internet Reacted to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar Win](http://time.com/4240828/leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-win-twitter/) After reminding viewers how much of the footage is “slow shots of pretty landscapes,” the narrator points out that even the film’s action scenes are so over the top they’re “one music change away from becoming _Jackass.”_ Watch the full trailer above. Leonardo DiCaprio's The Revenant Gets an Honest Trailer ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4275554/honest-trailer-the-revenant-leo-dicaprio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4275554/honest-trailer-the-revenant-leo-dicaprio/"},"headline":"The Honest Trailer for The Revenant Shows It Was Actually Kind of Boring","datePublished":"2016-03-29T20:05:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:13.282Z","description":"\"Hugh Glass and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day\"","url":"https://time.com/4275554/honest-trailer-the-revenant-leo-dicaprio/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Leonardo DiCaprio","honest trailers","screen junkies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4275554/honest-trailer-the-revenant-leo-dicaprio/","name":"The Honest Trailer for The Revenant Shows It Was Actually Kind of Boring"}}]}] ```