The Revenant
Out with a hunting party, explorer and fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a bear and left for dead by a craven duo who were tasked with either helping him recover or burying him with proper respect. Glass would channel some unprecedented badassery by not only surviving, but making a brutal 200 mile journey across present day South Dakota, sporting gravely gruesome injuries. His motivation for survival? Revenge. Pure and simple.
31 March 1979, Kaien Island, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
15 September 1977, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
8 November 1978, Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada
15 December 1981, Comox Valley, British Columbia, Canada
9 November 2001, Nabari-machi, Naga-gun, Mie Prefecture, Japan
30 July 1977, Ciudad Real, Spain
19 September 1972, Stavanger, Norway
December 12, 2016
The Revenant provides Iñarritu with an opportunity to present a view of the frontier as a place of nearly unrelieved brutality and looming death, all augmented by Lubezki's brilliant cinematography.
January 08, 2016
The journey is long and painstaking, the better to give you a sense of just what is being opposed to what.
January 07, 2016
The enormously talented Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Amores Perros," "21 Grams," "Birdman") strikes again with this 19th century American fable, one of the most brutally beautiful movies I've ever seen.
December 07, 2016
The Revenant is a wide and large film about intimate life experiences, and the result is one that is thrilling and contemplative.
March 23, 2017
I wouldn't call the viewing experience...enjoyable. But it's impressive, very beautiful, and, at times, undeniably exciting.
January 09, 2016
Iñárritu has constructed an epic fable of uncommon grace and resonance--a film that, like its hero, achieves a kind of transcendence.
January 08, 2016
DiCaprio is called on to depict the man's desperation, grief and searing anger almost entirely through his eyes and he does it with remarkable depth, turning Glass's endurance into a steadfastness both physical and emotional.
January 10, 2017
While parts of it are thrilling, this is a bloated film by a director who is full of himself, and it shows.
January 07, 2016
There is so much to like and admire and study closely, including DiCaprio's mature, committed, ruthless and yet empathetic performance.
November 17, 2016
Every scene in The Revenant may be remarkably staged, but feels rigorously planned.
January 07, 2016
DiCaprio may get put through bloody hell, but on a big screen "The Revenant" is heaven, with Lubezki's camera painting the American West as a rapturous primeval proving ground.
