Gorgeous with good performances

Rating: 9/10 (28 July 2019)

A gorgeous and well-acted movie with weaknesses. Leonardo deCaprio like his role as Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) shows that he understands suffering well as a mountain man in Revenant. Director Alejandro Inarritu incorporates a visceral cinematography style as found in Saving Private Ryan (1998) into his own visual aspect of men battling each other and seems to take advantage of the use of sharp artistic images along with crisp sound effects that made Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) so powerful and realistic. Using haunting and powerful strains of music that at times echo Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Inarritu enhances the movie's lengthy edits without dialogue. Revenant has many similarities to another stunning survival movie, Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (2006) and the epic western, Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves that won best movie Oscars twenty-five years ago.