Greatest Leonardo Di Caprio role that will last for decades.

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2016)

Leonardo Di Caprio as Hugh Glass (a frontiersman and the 19th century Bear Grylls) brings us his career peak performance, one that will be remembered for decades ahead as one of the most compelling and most ravishing in movie history, shoulder to shoulder with legends like Marlon Brando (Don Corleone) and Heath Ledger (The Joker).
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and produced by Markus Barmettler, "The Revenant" steals the show as one of the most wondrous adventure drama movies in the last few years, along with Emmanuel Lubezki's flawless cinematography (Birdman, Gravity) that can only be compared to Steven Spielberg's work and his marvelous long takes. All that is mingled with the masterpiece score by Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto, music geniuses that offer us a soundtrack that seals in our memory and refuses go away for quite a while after watching "The Revenant". This amazing score compensates for the lack of dialogue and monologue in some of the scenes.
Set in the 19th century, "The Revenant" unfolds the story of the frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo Di Caprio),who is attacked by a grizzly bear and then left for dead by his fellows, among whom are his half-American half-Indian son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) and 7 more men of his village, which had been previously attacked and scavenged by the American natives. After witnessing the murder of his son right before his eyes Hugh Glass has nothing to live for except the journey he's embarking on, ergo he's forced to experience the Man-vs-Wild story, which he's all by himself in, seeking revenge for his stabbed-to-death son. We can see elements from Bear Grylls and Killing Season during some of the scenes, especially the horse one, which recalls memories of Bear Grylls in the desert trying to fit in that dead camel. Amazing.
It's not only the cinematography and the astonishing directing that leave us dazzled, but also the breath-taking landscapes and the "small" detail that the movie is not shot in a studio, and that moment and every scene seems extremely genuine and real.
Utterly gripping adventure survival story that holds us on the edge of our seats with alluring performances by Di Caprio and Hardy, who entirely and perfectly fit their characters' demeanors, to give us that kind of astonishing performances worthy of being revered and loudly applauded.