The Revenant
The Revenantis an ambitious directorial and performance experiment that yields interesting, if not flawed, results.
The Revenanttakes us back to the American frontier during the early 19th century , back when aliveness ( so to speak ) in the unsettled res publica of Montana and the Dakotas hang by the precarious threads of human beings ’s savagery , and nature ’s barbarous whims . There we meet fabled American frontiersman and explorer Hugh Glass ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) , who is take a fur trapping expedition for Captain Andrew Henry ( Domnhall Gleeson ) and his company . The outing takes a bad turn when the society is brutally attacked by a hunt company of Arikara Native Americans ; bad turns to defective when , while on the run back to the fort , the company loses their best promise of survival , as Glass is mortally wounded in a grizzly bear attack .
Captain Henry orders two men - Jim Bridger ( Will Poulter ) and John Fitzgerald ( Tom Hardy ) - to stay behind with Glass ’s son , Hawk ( Forrest Goodluck ) , to help oneself the boy give his father proper burial , once the legendary frontiersman has finally died . However , veneration of the Arikara advertize Fitzgerald to betray his oath and abandon Glass , half - buried in the icy ground . But Glass does n’t go - on the contrary , he claws his style out of the grave , and limit to dragging himself - wounds and all - through all the barbarian terrain of the frontier , and the homicidal Arikara still hound him , back to the frontier settlement where he can find Fitzgerald , and show him what it unfeignedly take to bury a dead man .
Coming off his big Oscar win forBirdman , it would be easy to plainly endorse the immense talent of conductor Alejandro González Iñárritu - easier still to contribute an warrant for the physically grueling and dramatically rich performance of Leonardo DiCaprio . However , despite being technically impressive and propelled by a great primal performance , The Revenantcarries the rough signature tune of an ambitious yet crude experiment ; it ’s cold , technical , and precise in the direction a lab experimentation is , but fail to be as warm , high textured and profound as the glorious painting it opine itself to be .
One of the two great focal point ofThe Revenantis Iñárritu ’s alternative in directorial panache . After flit the viewer from scene to associative scene in films like21 GramsandBabel , Iñárritu has , in his late moving picture , chosen to go the opposite route , stretch scenes and chronological sequence out in a style like to his modern-day , Alfonso Cuarón . WithThe Revenant , Iñárritu stages long , guerilla undivided - take sequences , giving the film a frenetic pace , as well as the raw and visceral aesthetic ( thanks in part to glorious costuming and production design ) of the adrenaline , panic , fatigue and pain , of frontier life - actual emotion mined from actors and extras who be given unnumbered loops of intricate sequencing . struggle on understructure and horseback , boating run , or even just real - prison term succession of men dragging themselves bloody through the clay ; Iñárritu create many memorable - and no doubt , impactful - activeness - packed cinematic episodes deserving watching - and in total , most of the installment give good results .
… And yet , at the same time , taken as a whole , The Revenant ’s episodic and data-based tally of sequences ultimately leaves more seam and tags of artifice hanging off of it than the medium motion picture . The film has a 0 to 100 interval step ; serene instant punctuated by artsy flitting imagery in the older Iñárritu custom , snap right into the frantic , over - the - berm action succession . accept like that , it ’s hard not to see the starting and finishing lines of each major sequence - to practically hear the film director call " Action ! Action ! Action ! " , " CUT ! CUT ! CUT!“before and after each big sequence . The Revenant , while harbour from moment to moment , ultimately feels like film school on a much grander and more experient scale - but with the same tendency to overindulge in proficiency and form , rather than nitty-gritty and feel .
The same can be said of the script by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith ( The Hole , Vacancy ) , which layers a lot of impressionist visual metaphors and motifs on top of the gritty survivalist write up . It ’s debatable whetherThe Revenantactually realise the deep resonance that it tries to create around DiCaprio ’s Hugh Glass - but what is clear is that notions of frontier violence and the larger message behind it ( in regards to both man and god ) do n’t quite feel at base in the same space as pass scenes of brutal animal flack , rape , murders , or disembowelment ( to name just a few example ) . Perhaps the filmmakers wanted to raise Michael Punke ’s 2002 novel to the degree of a Cormac McCarthy part ( i.e. an artistic mix of violence and prose ) , but they fall down short of that marker by a few notches .
THE REVENANT Leonardo DiCaprio takes aim as trapper Hugh Glass, who must navigate a hostile environment, a brutal winter, and warring Native American tribes in relentless quest to survive and exact vengeance on the men who betrayed him. Photo credit: Kimberley French Copyright © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. THE REVENANT Motion Picture Copyright © 2015 Regency Entertainment (USA), Inc. and Monarchy Enterprises S.a.r.l. All rights reserved.Not for sale or d
Performance - wise , The Revenantis a tour de force vitrine for Leonardo DiCaprio , who spends a caboodle of the picture onscreen alone , in the deep goal of a operose forcible performance to which he fully commits . If you were impressed by the super - quaalude sequence inWolf of Wall Street , then you ’re in for 2.5 60 minutes of that same enjoyment ; but beyond the physical panorama of the operation , there is n’t really much to Hugh Glass ( on script , or in depicting ) that is all that impactful . disregardless , awards talking for Leo are justified ; many overlooked performer before him have finally received their Oscar for performance far less impressive than this one .
The supporting casting members comprehend a card of intimate eccentric actor , mostly doing familiar thing . Tom Hardy is n’t too far off from his grunting , mumbling performances inMad Max , Dark Knight RisesorLawlessas a grunting , mumbling frontiersman . His interlingual rendition of John Fitzgerald does do to egress as one of the more layered and interesting character in a tale that mostly underserves character , so there is something to be say for what he fetch to the board in non - verbal personal magnetism .
Domnhall Gleeson brings the soulful naiveté that made him a tragic number inEx Machina , making Captain Henry a good - hearted but inept drawing card , trying to keep his fear in check . Will Poulter has been a standout in films likeWe’re the MillersandThe Maze Runner , but here he ’s rather forgettable as the hopelessly in - over his head Jim Bridger . Finally a cast of characters of Native American and other character actors wreak the relaxation of the frontier kinfolk to convincing life .
Tom Hardy in The Revenant (2015)
In the conclusion , The Revenantis an challenging directorial and performance experiment that yields interesting , if not flawed , outcome . Whether it ’s the"best film of the year " is sure as shooting debatable ; it certainly could take the plunder for " most operose , " or " most brutal , " but that may not be quite what the arthouse bunch prepared their palettes for ; while the action crowd may not comprehend all the arthouse pauses along the bally , mad - style journeying . But for those who do n’t need comfort in their movie going experience : you should take this wild ride .
The Revenantis now playing in across-the-board release . It is 156 minutes long , and is Rated R for firm frontier fight and violence include gory image , a sexual ravishment , terminology and abbreviated nakedness .
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Inspired by the true case in the life of Hugh Glass , The Revenant is an action - play film that sees Leonardo DiCaprio in the starring role . Betrayed and exit for dead by one of the members of his hunting group , Glass finds himself contending with some of the harsh ingredient conceivable while tending to his deadly wounds , as his will to carry on and need for revenge pushing him to carry on in this gripping tale of survival .
Domnhall Gleeson in The Revenant (2015)
