Movie Review The Revenant

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Spoiler alerts - 2015 A major movie release that earned Leonardo DiCaprio multiple awards for his often brooding silent portrayal of American frontiersman and animal trapper, Hugh Glass. Legend, rather than history claimed that Glass survived against incredible odds in the blizzard ravaged wilderness. Savagely mauled by a grizzly bear, Glass was abandoned by his colleagues (led by Tom Hardy), but treated his own wounds, (using burning gun-powder to cauterize a cut throat), and staggered over 200 miles to seek revenge (especially as Hardy's men killed his half Pawney son to cover up their abandonment). I found the film dull and predictable, though well acted. Glass survives plummeting over multiple waterfalls and endures much of his journey without food. He comes across as near indestructible, a Rambo type figure driven by a need for vengeance though it comes in an unexpected closing twist. A film that isn't half as good as it thinks it is. Arthur Chappell