Beautiful but Long

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2016)

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Hugh Glass, a fur trapper, who in the 1820s, was part of a fur trapping expedition, who was attacked by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his companions. His major rival, John Fitzgerald, portrayed by the great British actor Tom Hardy, using a dead on Texas accent, make The Revenant one of the best films of 2015. The scenery is awesome and the story a compelling one. My only criticism is that at over two and a half hours, it is a little too long. The director, Alejandro Inarritu, could have tightened up the editing a bit and still had an excellent movie. Even so, The Revenant is worth watching.