Would have been better without the political agenda

Rating: 2/10 (14 April 2016)

It's an interesting story for a movie. They spent a lot of money to make it, and had Leonardo DiCaprico and a truly great actor in Tom Hardy in key roles. But sadly, the movie is ruined by a hateful political agenda.
The movie portrays the French as evil rapists. The Native Americans are portrayed as unhappy victims of evil white men.
There is a scene of redcoats killing killing Hugh Glass' Pawnee wife, but it is doubtful that Glass ever had a Native American wife, and the redcoats were not in South Dakota at that time in the 19th century. History was altered here to defame the British.
The Pawnee were never enemies of the British, French nor Americans during the 19th century, although they were often attacked by the Lakota. The French did not raid villages and slaughter all the Native Americans. History has been changed here with racist intent to defame the French.
In the historical record, Glass was mauled by the bear in early summer, not winter. And some of the locations chosen were ridiculous. For example the forest around Squamish, BC, Canada is nothing like South Dakota, where there are no mountains, just a few hills. I see Pacific Rainforest vegetation in the first half-hour: Western Hemlocks, Western Red Cedars, Douglas Firs and Sword Ferns. The movie could have easily been shot in some part of Canada that looks more like dry, grassy South Dakota.