Faster than a speeding bullet, leaping tall buildings in a single bound !!

Rating: 5/10 (25 February 2016)

Imagine a cross between Jeremiah Johnson, Get Carter and Superman and you have The Revenant (sounds pretty good). This is basically an old fashioned revenge saga. Now I know it's a remake of the superior Man In The Wilderness starring the late great Richard Harris but it really did get a bit carried away with itself.
The filming is great and the huge landscapes are the real stars of the show. The problem, as in so many movies these days, is one of plausibility. Without giving too much away our hero (DiCaprio) survives not one, not two, not three but about 7 brushes with CERTAIN death.
Colossal loss of blood, wet clothes in a sub zero environment, strangling, smothering, , falling off a cliff, drowning, knives, guns, Indians, baddies, gangrene..................the list goes on and on and all that was really missing was a red cape, a kiss curl and a cameo performance from Stan Lee.
Awards should go to the technical folk and it must've been a tough shoot for the cast but when you boil it all down there's a lot more gravy than meat and potatoes.