Badass epic

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2017)

Leonardo DiCaprio gives his all in this survival movie. He walks, then walks some more, and then does a bit more walking. If an actor putting himself through hell equals awards glory, then DiCaprio deserves his name on the trophy for his performance representing a kind of progressive frontier man. Part of the entertainment of watching The Revenant is knowing its cast and crew went through the same crazy conditions and endurance tests the actor went through in the various middles of various uncharted wilderness.
Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu transports us to another time and place in this depiction of First Nations people. The movie is based on historic fiction, when a fur-trapping expedition in the Midwest gets attacked by a Native American tribe and history gets written in blood. Excellence in art should always be rewarded and Leo sure is in the right role with the right director at the right time.