The Revenant: Review

Last week I saw The Revenant, the exiting movie that gave Leo the Oscar. But first of all, as Wikipedia said "The Revenant is a 2015 American survival film directed, co-produced and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu". Also, this movie is based in part on Michael Punke's novel, inspired on Hugh Glass's life in 1823.

"The Revenant won three Golden Globe Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and at the 88th Academy Awards, Iñárritu, DiCaprio and Emmanuel Lubezki won the awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Cinematography, respectively. DiCaprio also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor" as wikipedia said 

The movie starts with an incredible "screen shoot" of an incredible landscape of some-winter-place, where appear the main characters while are hunting because they want the fur of animals (caribous for example).While Glass and his half-Pawnee son Hawk are hunting, an hostile Arikara group attack the rest of Glass's team and the survivors are being forced to abandon the pelts they’d collected.

The survivors go inside the boat so they run away using the river. All goes wrong with Glass, when he suffers a attack caused by an incredible  grizzly bear and her cubs. He tries to kill the bear and surprisingly he can but Glass is badly injured. Without medical attention available, Henry(the captain)  offers money for anyone to stay behind with Glass in case he recovers or dies. The only volunteers are Hawk(Glass's son) and the young Jim Bridger, Fitzgerald eventually agrees to stay because he wants to recover some money because the abandoned pelts. Henry makes Fitzgerald promise that if Glass dies, he will give him a decent burial.

After the young boy leaves,  Fitzgerald attempts to kill Glass ( Glass agreed), but he is stopped by Hawk. Hawk tries to call for help, but Fitzgerald stabs the boy in front of his father. Fitzgerald hides Hawk’s body before Jim returns to the camp. Glass can do nothing but watch. The next morning, Fitzgerald wakes Jim and tells him that a party of Arikara are surrounding them, and left the camp, they drop Glass into a grave and abandon him.

When Fitzgerald and Jim meet up with the Captain at Fort Kiowa, Fitzgerald tells him that  they were unable to save Glass and that Hawk is missing. In gratitude of their service, Henry pays both men but  Bridger refuses the money. Glass starts to move  first by crawling, then walking. He performs a self-surgery to heal his injuries (with fire and powder) while attempting to elude the Arikara. The Arikara captain is searching for his daughter, Powaqa, who was kidnapped by white men.

After escaping the Arikara, Glass meets a Pawnee refugee named Hikuc. After one night,  Glass awakes and discovers Hikuc has been hanged by a group of French colonists. Glass discovers they are responsible for Powaqa’s rape. Glass is pursued by the Arikara and is driven over a cliff. His horse dies in the fall and an Glass uses his body for sleep inside it.

A  survivor of the French comes into Fort Kiowa, where he is questioned about the attack on his men. He reveals he is carrying his attacker’s canteen (which Bridger recognizes it). Fitzgerald, knowing that Glass is the only person who could have the flask, escapes to Texas. The search party finds Glass. When the party returns to the fort, they find that Fitzgerald has escape.

Finally Henry and Glass search Fitzgerald, but Fitzgerald ambushes Henry and shoots him. Glass finds Fitzgerald and kill him so he pushes Fitzgerald into the river just as the Arikara appears. Arikaria's boss scalps and kills Fitzgerald. 

I really enjoyed this movie but it is not my favourite movie. But of course that I really enjoy Leo's character and all his incredible scenes. 

Another part of the movie that I like is the incredible landscapes and all the animals. And obviously I LOVED the scene with the bear. 

8/10