Realistic Looking Tale of Revenge

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2016)

I saw "The Revenant", starring Leonardo DiCaprio-Django Unchained, The Quick and the Dead; Tom Hardy-Mad Max:Fury Road, Bane in The Dark Knight Rises; Domhnall Gleeson-Star Wars:The Force Awakens, True Grit_2010 and Will Poulter-The Maze Runner, We're the Millers.
This movie is based on true events about a frontiersman named Hugh Glass. The story was made into an earlier movie back in 1971 and it was called 'Man in the Wilderness', starring Richard Harris. The director of this movie is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who also directed 'Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance'. Revenant is a French word, meaning to revert to spirit or ghost. The story takes place in the 1820's, with Leo playing Hugh Glass, a guide for a group of fur traders. Tom is one of the traders being led by Leo and Tom does not like Leo and his son, at all. Believe it or not, it seems like there was racism going on back in the old west. Leo has an Indian son from an Indian wife-that has since passed away-that Leo uses as his assistant guide and Tom just don't hanker to them. Domhnall is the leader of the traders that is trying to raise money for his soldiers and some settlers back home and Will is another trader in the team. After a bear attacks Leo and leaves him in pretty bad shape-the attack or actually a maul, looks realistically authentic-Tom leaves Leo and his son behind, to die. Tom actually helps the son on his journey to meet his ancestors in the happy hunting grounds, up in the sky. Leo crawls out of a hastily dug grave and goes after his revenge. Along the journey, Leo runs into other fur traders and Indians, falls off a cliff while riding a horse and climbs inside a dead animal, just to keep warm-kind of like what Luke Skywalker did. You gotta say one thing for him, he didn't know the meaning of the phrase, 'Just give up'. It's rated "R" for violence, gory images, language and sexual content- including nudity and a sexual assault-and has a running time of 2 hours & 36 minutes. I really enjoyed it and would buy it on DVD.