Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2016)

This is the story of Hugh Glass, or rather this is the story of the Hollywood version of Hugh Glass. Glass never married a Pawnee Indian and he most certainly never had a son which reduces the plot somewhat! The cinematography is superb and the locations cold and unrelenting. Mr De Caprio is required to look glum and cold and occasionally grunt with pain. An Oscar winning performance it is not! One can only assume Academy members were impressed with his ability to survive on such cold locations? The revenge mission in the film is completely at odds with the accepted version of events. Tom Hardy is the outstanding actor and certainly deserves recognition. The scene where his character Fitzgerald on hearing that Glass is returning decides to rob the payroll safe and abscond with the money. Untrue. Fitzgerald had left the fort weeks before the story of Glass become public knowledge. Glass had to head south to find him. When he succeeded in finding Fitzgerald he discovered that Fitzgerald was now employed by the U.S Cavalry and was therefore a government official. Shooting him would have meant the death penalty for Glass. He had hoped to call him out in a gunfight but in the end relented, retrieved his rifle and headed north to carry on trapping. A disappointing film. With the budget they have why not tell the true story and cover the whole of the life of Hugh Glass?