Only for Di Caprio and Hardy !!

Rating: 7/10 (7 May 2016)

The Revenant is a difficult film to watch and buy the time the movie ended I was wondering how any man could survive in the mountains of US for a single day in the 1800s, forget weeks and months.
Thats the power of film making and story telling Iñárritu has and it hit me multiple times while watching this film. Right from the 1st scene when Glass's contingent of men are attacked by the Indians to he being attacked by the grizzly bear to him surviving and finally extracting revenge, its unbelievable and I was awe struck.
The story is simple..a tale of survival and revenge. The difference is Iñárritu and his two men...Di Caprio and Hardy.
Hardy is virtually unrecognisable. After watching him in Madmax Fury Road earlier, he plays an opposite character of a brooding pessimist man who becomes the accidental villain. His make up that includes a half bald hair is superb and he puts on the perfect accent that I forget he is British. I was wondering how he missed receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
And Mr. Di Caprio. I hate to say this but it seems that Revenant is a tailor made role for an Oscar which he won with ease. Its an outstanding performance and you feel his pain and his struggle to survive. Like Hardy, he is unrecognisable under the huge beard and sinks his teeth into the role.
Di Caprio has done better performances according to me in films like Wolf of Wall Street and Inception. But an Oscar is an Oscar.
Another stand out in the film is the Cinematography. Forget the blood and pain and focus on the scenes, it seems like the scene is painted. Some of the shots are like from some American tourism brochure. Marvellous.
Finally, I was wondering how Iñárritu could make two handsome men look so ugly and nasty and yet walk away with an Oscar...he he !