Glass lives with the spirit of his slaughtered wife and in the last shot appears to rejoin her in the spirit world

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2016)

Glass lives with the spirit of his slaughtered wife and in the last shot appears to rejoin her in the spirit world. Indeed the title may connote dreamer and avenger but it literally means a returning spirit. As he says before his last mission, "I ain't afraid to die anymore. I'd done it already." Hawk says to the moribund Glass, then Glass says to dead Hawk what he said to his dead wife: "I'm right here. You hear me?" The spirits are there to address. This rebuts Fitzgerald's last remark: "You came all this way just for your revenge, huh? Did you enjoy it, Glass?... 'Cause there ain't nothing' gon' bring your boy back."
The Revenant is a classic case of style over substance. Fantastic actors, slipping effortlessly into a range of clichéd characters, stunning cinematography, and zero emotion. I'm a crier, I will cry at the majority of films and TV shows (and occasionally books), so the fact that I not only didn't cry, but felt absolutely nothing towards any of the characters, says it all.