A great remake !

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2016)

I don't want to spoil this for anyone out there but this great movie with an Oscar worthy performance by Leonardo DiCaprio is a remake and I find it a bit odd that I am perhaps the first one to bring this up. Richard Harris played the lead role in the 1971 picture "Man in the Wilderness" which I saw many years ago. When The Revenant came out, my first thought was...Oh boy, yet another Hollywood remake. The story in the original version also takes place in the early 1800's and unfolds basically the same way. The one thing that stuck to me in the older version was the similar yet still frightening bear attack on the fur trapper guide. Whatever...this is still a very good movie REMAKE.