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Set in the Rockies around 1840, the film is based on the true story of legendary mountain man Hugh Glass. Abandoned & left to die after he's mauled by a grizzly, Hugh sets out on a quest to seek revenge on the man who deserted him. The scenery is spectacular & ominous -- in fact, the vast wilderness scenery is one of the stars of the show. Leonardo Di Caprio does his usual excellent work as Hugh Glass, Altho he spends about half the film literally crawling & incoherent after the bear attack. He won the Oscar for this role. This is a good but not great film. Worth seeing for the scenery alone.
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Made little sense to us, how survival in freezing water and temps could be tolerated 'beyond' our understanding, for some FURS. We understand who the indians were looking for, but the lines became blury, and I don't know if the daughter was found. WHO are the good guys. very confusing, start to finish..
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This movie has a great combination of action/adventure and survival techniques in early America. Many people said that this movie was dry or slow but I thought it was interesting. If I would find anything wrong or not necessary in this movie, it would be the lighting. Apparently, the director had a thing about using natural lighting which meant a lot of the movie looked dark since much of it was in the trees or forest areas. But, it did not really detract from the story. It just seemed odd. As far as DiCaprio's performance, it was very good and of course he won an Oscar for it. But, really, almost any actor who had this role could have won an Oscar performing in this character. I recommend this movie.
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The Revenant is a gritty, well acted story based on real people, real events. DiCaprio in his role matches the gravitas of Charlton Heston in Ben Hur, Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, Al Pacino in Godfather. It is a story set in winter conditions, the rivals and archetypal combatants being Natives and Trappers. But, the real story is the love of a father for his murdered son, and his relentless pursuit of his son's killer. This is filmed outside, in the most challenging conditions, augmented by some clever computer graphics. The word 'Spectacular' is on the cover. It is not an overstatement.
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Maybe if you're a De Caprio fan, you will like this. The story would have been better , but it was unlikely that Leonardo could have carried out the effort to survive that the story required. The worst aspect was the lighting...I don't know what the director was thinking, but about half of the movie is difficult to watch because the lighting is so inadequate. It may not be horrible, but it's far from great....only good, at best.
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