The Revenant Film Review

Finished watching The Revenant, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and staring Domhnall Gleeson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Forrest Goodluck, Tom Hardy and Will Poulter. The film opens with a large group of hunters under the command of Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson) are forced to leave when Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) notice a large group of Native Americans. Causing the group to lose most of their number as they flee the scene with the use of a small raft down the river. After getting enough distance away from the Natives the group burn the raft and continue home on foot in hoping to avoid any confrontation in the forest. While in the forest Hugh encounters a large bear, which attacks him leaving Hugh brutality injured leading to his son, John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and Jim Bridger (Will Poulter) to watch over him while the rest of the group head home to get help. After a few days John gets annoyed for waiting around he kills Hawk due to being protective of his dad and buries Hugh alive and lies to Jim about a group of coming Natives. Overall this was a good film as Hugh's survival story is incredibly intriguing and captivating in how he builds up the willpower to crawl himself out of being buried by John. The action scenes are great as they are choreographed extremely well while a few of the scenes bring some edge of the seat moments with one such scene where Hugh is being chased by a group of Native Americans on horse back only for the film to take a surprising turn. The cinematography is great as its used to show the location thanks to some breathtaking imagery that helps to show the passing of time by the many shots of the changing faces of the moon. 7.5/10