Tom Hardy is also phenomenal as one of the most vile, wretched human beings on the planet. Leonardo DiCaprio gives a heart-wrenching performance as Hugh Glass, expressing a wide range of emotions despite the limited dialogue. I'm not sure what parts of the story were embellished or Hollywoodized, but this film sucks you into this world and puts you right alongside this fatally wounded man desperate to survive. The things that happen to this man are truly horrific and difficult to watch. What it also highlights is human perseverance and the will to live. In the 1800s, a group of settlers escape an ambush by an indigenous tribe, and during their travels one man gets separated from the group and gets brutally attacked by a wild bear and subsequently left for dead by his team. This is not to discount the incredible performances of DiCaprio and Hardy (DiCaprio finally getting his well-overdue Oscar), but it's hard to imagine the movie being so impactful had another director been at the helm. You can tell Iñárritu poured his heart into this project and it pays off tremendously. It's cold, visceral, and almost entirely authentic from the use of natural lighting to the barebones yet powerful storytelling. The Revenant has some of the most beautiful cinematography I've ever seen. Iñárritu had the public anxiously awaiting his interpretation of this bleak survival story, and much like Birdman, Iñárritu is also the star of this film.
Following the incredible Birdman, director Alejandro G. Since the first trailers of this movie came out I knew it would be an experience.
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