strong, exciting journey

Rating: 9/10 (9 January 2016)

This movie showed amazing cinematography amid majestic settings from the opening scenes and throughout the movie. With direction of the photographer following individual characters in the line of battle, the audience is on the edge of its seat figuring out what is going on from the start, as Journeyman, Explorer, Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) leads a troop of Fur traders cross country along the Northwest (North Dakota, actual location).
This true survival story from the early 1800's made me describe the movie roughly, as a cross between Jerehmiah Johnson (Robert Redford), The Patriot (Mel Gibson) and Deliverance(Burt Reynolds). With those titles, if any of them tripped your trigger, then you will very much LIKE the Revenant!
There are good lessons of character in this movie for which are brought out in the way the badly injured Glass is treated by his troop after being viciously mauled by a huge bear. However, it is the vision and voice of his deceased wife and son that keeps Glass going in hard to believe scenarios.
One of the best movies that I've seen in a long while for this genre.
Expect Best Movie, Director, Cinematography and Best Actor nominations by the Academy.