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The Revenant

2015 Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

(n. One who has returned, as if from the dead.)

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

Leonardo DiCaprio Tom Hardy Will Poulter Domhnall Gleeson Paul Anderson Brad Carter Kristoffer Joner Lukas Haas Brendan Fletcher Joshua Burge Robert Moloney Grace Dove Timothy Lyle Kory Grim Forrest Goodluck Duane Howard Arthur RedCloud Vincent Leclerc Emmanuel Bilodeau

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Review by FernandoFCroce ★ 48

Fear Factor + One. Perfect. Shot. ≠ Tarkovsky
Review by Evan ★★★★★ 43

If Leonard DiCaprio doesn't win The Oscar; I will be more done than a white girl that went to Starbuck just to find out that they were all out of triple espresso mochaccino lattes.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 39

60/100

The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a masterclass in portraying a sense of an untamed yet euphoric setting. Its grimy and increasingly mythical landscape contrast with serene Digital images, showcasing a vast environment with a conflicted aura of inhospitable wilderness and the tantalizing search for greed and power. With Emmanuel Lubezki at the helm as DP, and armed with the Arri Alexa 65, the result is a gigantic adventure with a scope as wide as its constant lens choice, but sadly miscalculated when it comes to core story components.

Its ultimately disappointing to think, after all the horror stories involved in production, that something so misguided can result from such obvious turmoil, but most of the issues…
Review by Redfern ★ 60

At first I thought Iñárritu was simply doing a parody of Malick and Peckinpah. Then I realised that this was meant to be taken seriously.
Review by Jordan Rowe ★★★★★ 8

My brain is struggling to process complete sentences after this film, but I'll give it a try...

I really don't wanna oversell this, but "The Revenant" is one of the most stunning, visceral moviegoing experiences I've ever had. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is working on another level as a storyteller, channeling his pure, auteur-driven vision onto the screen. It's visually astounding (Emmanuel Lubezki is a force of nature behind the camera), intense, and emotionally fulfilling. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy also turn in some of the best work of their careers.
Review by Jonathan White ★★★ 43

I was going to just knock off a smart-ass little one liner … ‘Hiring Mr. Lubezki does not a Malick film make’ … but I’ve been writing too many of those lately, and Alejandro Iñárritu deserves more respect than that. Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel are all films I’ve seen, enjoyed, and respected. I was on the ‘loved’ side of the divisive Bird Man.

I do believe in the nut of that quip I was going to post. I think Iñárritu began to change with Birdman, and the biggest evidence of that change was saying goodbye to long time cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and striking a new relationship with Chivo.

Rodrigo Prieto is no slouch, but he’s a cinematographer that…

Recent reviews

Review by Dylan Peloquin ★★★★

“My heart bleeds, but revenge is in the Creator's hands”
Review by Conor quinlan ★★★★½

Exquisite cinematography
Review by HollisK ★★★★½

Entertaining for all 156 minutes. Gruesome and thrilling, emotional and captivating, satisfying and inspiring. Some parts are hard to watch but well worth watching.
Review by Alan ★★

This film is about as badly mauled as Leo by its unwillingness to dispense with art house accoutrements. Though at times beautiful, The Revenant is so interested in capturing some sort of deep Western Experience, so concerned with doing its best Mallick impression, or its best spielberg impression, or its best Tarkovsky impression, that it nearly forgets its a simple revenge film. Still, Leo and Hardy do an admirable job, and the soundtrack is great. But one can't really ignore the elephant in the room: Inarritu's colossally hamfisted direction, which turns much of the film into a miserable slog of survival porn, confusing misery for depth, pain for realism.
Review by Micah Winiata ★★★★½

I love this film. It's bonkers.

The use of nature and the biggest theme of survival is attributed to the way its shot and cut together.

A stellar cast and a great watch when you're hungover and eating Pad Thai.

Well done my boys.
Review by Pete Majarich ★★★★★

Gritty and naturalistic. A beautiful depiction of a raw time in American history. Chivo pulls of it off masterfully in each shot. And that bear scene(!).
Review by matscomh ★

excellent
Review by Rayssa Guenther ★★★★★

Oq são esses movimentos de câmera e esses planos manooooooooooo

ALGUÉM DA UM OSCAR DNV PRA ESSE HOMEM GZUIS T AMO DICAPRIO
Review by _sugarSong ★★★★

Estéticamente es una de las películas mas bonitas que he visto.
La actuación y el compromiso de DiCaprio con su papel es admirable y su actuación junto a la de Tom Hardy en la secuencia final me mantuvo en el borde de la silla.
Es una película muy cruda y sabe captar la rudeza de su contexto.
Las escenas de los flashbacks son confusas y se sienten forzadas en la película ya que no aportan nada importante para la trama.