Viewers get to experience the unrelenting journey with the characters

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2016)

Alejandro González Iñárritu's two-and-a-half hour odyssey tells the story of Leonardo DiCaprio's character coming back from near-death to seek revenge on the man (played by Tom Hardy) who abandoned him and killed his son. The film is inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass, a frontiersman who was mauled by a by a grizzly bear near the Missouri River in 1823. Iñárritu's decision to film "The Revenant" exclusively with natural light adds to the movie's visceral potency, but some elements remain unrealistic, including the CGI bison stampede and certain aspects of the bear mauling. Still, the film's imagery and keen camera angles force viewers to experience the unrelenting journey with the characters as they search for meaning through survival.
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