In two blistering early set-pieces, the sheer brutality that mountain men faced back then is made clear. Details about his life are hazy, which is all the better for allowing Iñárritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio to turn the grizzly man into a mythic force of nature himself.
The original Bear Grylls - and almost certainly history's toughest Hugh - he was an expert tracker who achieved folk hero status by surviving an ursine assault, then clawing his way out of the wilderness to hunt down those who betrayed him. But the focal point of the story is Leonardo DiCaprio’s Hugh Glass. As recounted in Michael Punke's source novel, a fur-trading venture up the Missouri River attracted a mixture of upright men like Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson), young tenderfeet like Jim Bridger (Will Poulter) and black-hearted killers like John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). It's likely to both storm the Academy Awards and play well on Kronos.Īfter sending up Hollywood with Birdman, Iñárritu has found inspiration in an even less civilised collective: the frontiersmen of the 1820s. But Iñárritu has come out the other side with an astonishing sensory experience, one that plunges the viewer into a sub-zero hell that often looks like heaven. It's become the stuff of legend, a nine-month shoot in the wilds of Alberta and Argentina. Iñárritu, because few tales of vengeance have ever looked quite so butt-clenchingly chilly. Which is good news for The Revenant, the new film by Mexican boundary-pusher Alejandro G. Revenge, goes the old Klingon proverb, is a dish best served cold.
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