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The Revenant (2015)
Director: Alejandro Iñárritu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter
Genre: Outdoor Adventure Thriller
Brief Synopsis (spoiler free): In 1823 a group of rugged frontiersmen are on a fur trapping expedition into the uncharted wilderness of the Dakotas. They come under attack by hostile Native American Indians. After fleeing for their lives, the frontiersmen attempt to make their way back to safety to a distant fort. On the way back one of them is attacked by a bear. That one lone frontiersman must then fight for survival in the dead of winter.
My Thoughts: What an exciting movie! Even though it's 2.5 hours long, the time flies by. This is very well made with stunning on-location filming. The movie really looks great...the cold, bleak wilderness never looked more inhospitable. The cinematography and locations alone make this film worth watching.
Leonardo DiCaprio is of course the star of the film and gives one helluva fine performance here. Some of the things he has to do to survive must be seen to be believed. And this is where the adventure-thriller excitement comes from, the need to survive at all cost.
Tom Hardy plays the heavy, a really bad guy that makes the story line possible. What impressed me was his fine acting and especially the way he delivered his lines. He spoke like an uneducated mountain man would, which made me believe his character was real. That says a lot about his acting ability.
Authenticity I of course wasn't around in the 1820's, but I totally believed that this is how frontier mountain men looked and acted. The movie seems believable in the actions these men take and even in the way they look and talk.
What I would have liked was more about the men themselves. Because the movie is very heavy on action, we never really get to learn about who these men are, or what their back story is. Had that been done, I would be giving this a very high rating indeed. Still there's a lot to like here in this fine, adventure film.
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The Revenant (2015)Director: Alejandro Iñárritu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter
Genre: Outdoor Adventure Thriller
Brief Synopsis (spoiler free): In 1823 a group of rugged frontiersmen are on a fur trapping expedition into the uncharted wilderness of the Dakotas. They come under attack by hostile Native American Indians. After fleeing for their lives, the frontiersmen attempt to make their way back to safety to a distant fort. On the way back one of them is attacked by a bear. That one lone frontiersman must then fight for survival in the dead of winter.
My Thoughts: What an exciting movie! Even though it's 2.5 hours long, the time flies by. This is very well made with stunning on-location filming. The movie really looks great...the cold, bleak wilderness never looked more inhospitable. The cinematography and locations alone make this film worth watching.
Leonardo DiCaprio is of course the star of the film and gives one helluva fine performance here. Some of the things he has to do to survive must be seen to be believed. And this is where the adventure-thriller excitement comes from, the need to survive at all cost.
Tom Hardy plays the heavy, a really bad guy that makes the story line possible. What impressed me was his fine acting and especially the way he delivered his lines. He spoke like an uneducated mountain man would, which made me believe his character was real. That says a lot about his acting ability.
Authenticity I of course wasn't around in the 1820's, but I totally believed that this is how frontier mountain men looked and acted. The movie seems believable in the actions these men take and even in the way they look and talk.
What I would have liked was more about the men themselves. Because the movie is very heavy on action, we never really get to learn about who these men are, or what their back story is. Had that been done, I would be giving this a very high rating indeed. Still there's a lot to like here in this fine, adventure film.
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