Inspired by true events, The Revenant is a story about Hugh Glass (Leonardo Dicaprio) and his incredible journey of survival. While on an expedition with his hunting team, Glass gets attacked by a bear and is left to die until the rest of the team finds him. They get the bear off him and stitch up his wounds, but despite their efforts to save him, a lot of the team thinks he’s done for. The team sets up camp for the night and look after Glass. The next day they realized it would be too difficult to transport him and move fast enough to stay alive, so they left him at camp with his son and two other members of the hunting team. While Glass was on his log-made bed that the team made for him, one of the other hunters (John Fitzgerald) betrays him right in front of his face. After seeing this Glass knows that now he has to survive now to get his revenge.

The Revenant was filmed on location in Canada and various mountain ranges around the United States, which gave the film very beautiful scenery and made it that much more believable since it wasn’t filmed on a man-made set. Along with the amazing scenery, the camera work was just beautiful. There were a lot of long, complicated shots that they made look so fluent and so realistic, which was my favorite part of the film. They did an amazing job of showing emotion and frustration, which there was a lot of. Along with the spot-on cinematography, the cast was almost a perfect fit. Leonardo Dicaprio did such a great job showing the life of a frontiersman in the early 1800’s and so did the rest of the cast.

With the total run time being two hours and 36 minutes, it’s definitely not a short movie. Personally I think it was a good length for a movie like this because I assume daily life moved pretty slow in the 1800’s. Even though it’s pretty long, I never really paid attention to it because I was too busy focused on what was going on in the movie. I definitely recommend this film for anyone, but especially people who admire amazing cinematography and great scenery. I give this film a 9/10.