A frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s is on a quest for survival after being brutally mauled by a bear.
Iñárritu turns a creaky bit of frontier mythology into a gruelling, exquisite, mystical odyssey of survival that will make you cancel that camping trip.
The movie is as thrilling and painful as a sheet of ice held to the skin.
The Revenant isn’t a smooth ride at all but it’s a film on the very grandest scale - a frostbitten epic which can’t help but provoke a sense of awe through its its visual daring and the sheer demented scope of its ambition.
Astounding. With a director, DoP and cast at the top of their game, The Revenant is a filmmaking triumph. You cannot afford to miss experiencing this on the big screen.
To describe The Revenant as epic hardly seems enough; magnificent is more like it.
It is slow and contemplative, staggeringly beautiful and utterly compelling.
The insights are not especially original (the human spirit is strong!) but the execution is astounding.
Leonardo DiCaprio gives his all in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s visceral, icebound survival story.
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