The Revenant is a cinematic masterpiece that most likely will be remembered for years to come!

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2016)

Alexandre Iñárritu did it again! Birdman was an extraordinary film and Iñárritu followed it up with The Revenant which is a fantastic film! It has breathtaking cinematography from Emmanuel Lubezki which is even more impressive when you look at the challenge that Iñárritu decided to tackle: filming it entirely in all natural light. This just added to the realistic nature to the film and made it visually breathtaking.
This film is partly based on true events in the 1820s and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a frontiersman named 'Hugh Glass', who is brutally mauled by a bear leaving him seriously injured and out to get revenge on Tom Hardy's character 'John Fitzgerald' for something that took place just after his encounter with the bear.
Leonardo DiCaprio gave an outstanding performance showing his struggles, turmoil, and general survival. His performance was very visual involving very little spoken words and when it was, it was mostly another language than English. This has to be one of the best visual performances I have ever seen from an actor in film, it was incredible seeing this character go through what he went through!
Tom Hardy also gave a brilliant performance as this cowardice, backstabbing, liar who does a great job at making you show disdain for the character. Glass and Fitzgerald have a defining scene at one point in the film showing them fighting against each other with quite a lot of brutality to the fight that left me on the edge of my seat with its intense and unsparing nature. I feel that this along with the bear scene are some of the best from 2015.
Now speaking of the bear scene, it will go down as one of the best scenes in cinema history. It was incredible how realistic and intense it turned out to be! The CGI on the bear is the best I think I've seen for an animal: making for an extremely believable bear that I was finding hard to believe wasn't real! DiCaprio's performance is also one to be acknowledged for this scene with the pain and desperation of his actions as he struggles to survive. Extraordinary!
However, I did have one issue worth noting and that was a choice of words towards the climax of the film, I don't want to give anything away but I feel that was an underwhelming remark within the situation. But overall this film is fantastic and I would definitely recommend watching it!