The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and the lad out of The Maze Runner (Will Poulter) in this epic piece of cinematography. As I said in my Twitter tweet, this movie can best be described in three words - gripping, gritty and ... gory.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a legendary explorer who is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by his team. Leaving only his son, fellow officer Fitzgerald (Hardy) and young scout Bridger (Will Poulter) behind to look after him during his final days, Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson) promises riches if they look after the supposedly dying Glass. After killing Glass' mixed heritage son in front of him and tricking Bridger, he leaves Glass partially buried in a shallow grave to die in the wilderness and to claim his riches. However, what he didn't bank on was the indomitable human spirit that burns within and gives Glass the strength to carry on and try to avenge his son's death.
The movie is an epic one, and you need to be strapped in for the long haul at a run time of 156 minutes you definitely need to stock up on the popcorn. Two parts Lord of the Rings, one part Castaway and a sprinkling of The Grey, the movie features some delicious scenery and some amazing cinematography. The brutalness of the movie is both proving a point and hard hitting. The animals are wither needlessly slaughtered or are killing each other in earnest, or the humans are doing the same thing too. Everything is dangerous in the movie and the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, puts the camera right in the middle of the action which sometimes feels a little too real. In this movie alone I see two horses killed - one by a man shooting it and another when it plunges off a cliff, and the bear attack on Glass which I've mentioned above. the bear attack is very graphic and sustained and is one of those things that will be etched on my memory as a memorable scene in a movie.
The cast is strong here - Tom Hardy is a fantastic character in this. Hardy's Fitzgerald is suitably ruthless and has no morals whatsoever, and even his final line in the movie is just as heartless as his actions have been. DiCaprio's Glass spends much of the film injured and trying to survive - mostly this brings tensions and a "how will he escape this?" but the movie is on for so long that sometimes the crawling and limping get a bit too much and you wish they skip a few days until he gets better so he can walk properly again. There is actually one sequence where DiCaprio has fallen into a freezing river and is holding onto a piece of wood, and I briefly worried for him after what happened in Titanic, but luckily Rose wasn't there and he got safely to the shore.
Overall the film is well made, has a fantastic cast and the scenery is fantastic. The music is effective but the story is not clear. I only knew that Glass was an explorer by reading the blurb for the movie, the movie just gets right into it form the get go without going too much into back story. The only other grumble is that it's on for a long time and feels a little drawn out in places. Other than that it's a solid movie that is deserving the plaudits it's getting.
The Revenant comes out on 15th January 2016 and is on at all good cinemas.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a legendary explorer who is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by his team. Leaving only his son, fellow officer Fitzgerald (Hardy) and young scout Bridger (Will Poulter) behind to look after him during his final days, Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson) promises riches if they look after the supposedly dying Glass. After killing Glass' mixed heritage son in front of him and tricking Bridger, he leaves Glass partially buried in a shallow grave to die in the wilderness and to claim his riches. However, what he didn't bank on was the indomitable human spirit that burns within and gives Glass the strength to carry on and try to avenge his son's death.
The movie is an epic one, and you need to be strapped in for the long haul at a run time of 156 minutes you definitely need to stock up on the popcorn. Two parts Lord of the Rings, one part Castaway and a sprinkling of The Grey, the movie features some delicious scenery and some amazing cinematography. The brutalness of the movie is both proving a point and hard hitting. The animals are wither needlessly slaughtered or are killing each other in earnest, or the humans are doing the same thing too. Everything is dangerous in the movie and the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, puts the camera right in the middle of the action which sometimes feels a little too real. In this movie alone I see two horses killed - one by a man shooting it and another when it plunges off a cliff, and the bear attack on Glass which I've mentioned above. the bear attack is very graphic and sustained and is one of those things that will be etched on my memory as a memorable scene in a movie.
The cast is strong here - Tom Hardy is a fantastic character in this. Hardy's Fitzgerald is suitably ruthless and has no morals whatsoever, and even his final line in the movie is just as heartless as his actions have been. DiCaprio's Glass spends much of the film injured and trying to survive - mostly this brings tensions and a "how will he escape this?" but the movie is on for so long that sometimes the crawling and limping get a bit too much and you wish they skip a few days until he gets better so he can walk properly again. There is actually one sequence where DiCaprio has fallen into a freezing river and is holding onto a piece of wood, and I briefly worried for him after what happened in Titanic, but luckily Rose wasn't there and he got safely to the shore.
Overall the film is well made, has a fantastic cast and the scenery is fantastic. The music is effective but the story is not clear. I only knew that Glass was an explorer by reading the blurb for the movie, the movie just gets right into it form the get go without going too much into back story. The only other grumble is that it's on for a long time and feels a little drawn out in places. Other than that it's a solid movie that is deserving the plaudits it's getting.
The Revenant comes out on 15th January 2016 and is on at all good cinemas.
POPSCORE: 7.5/10
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If I you liked this try: The Grey, The Patriot, Whiteout, Lord of the Rings (if you like nice scenery and lots of roaming about)
Anything else?
This movie has already won Golden Globe awards and is gunning for some Oscar goodness too - but will it glean Leonardo DiCaprio his first Oscar?
This movie is apparently based on a true story - well some of it anyway.
Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio have been in a movie together before - in Christopher Nolan's awesome movie Inception.
This movie is apparently based on a true story - well some of it anyway.
Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio have been in a movie together before - in Christopher Nolan's awesome movie Inception.
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