But for this...

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2018)

An amazing film as others have detailed, until the "dramatic" and unnecessary final plot twist. All that we have learned and know of Hugh Glass tells me that he knew what Fitzgerald would first do: check the fallen body of "Glass" for proof he was dead.
Fitzgerald would have been shot dead as the final triumph of Glass and his wilderness survival skills - propping up Captain Anderson 's body in the saddle (shades of El Cid!). The clumsy mutual wounding and subsequent chase were unnecessary.
Had Powaqa happened upon that scene instead, the film would have closed as magically and meaningfully.