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Feb 16, 2016 · This synopsis makes the film sound like a long-lost Clint Eastwood picture, about a monosyllabic gunfighter who is symbolically or actually killed and then raised from the dead to exact vengeance on his tormentors. "The Revenant" might have made a good Clint film, though surely nowhere near as visually audacious as the one envisioned by Iñárritu.
Most of the positive comments about the movie boil down to praising it by using words that should be neutral descriptors (realistic, intense, gritty, etc.) but by their context (used as praise) you see that people consider those things adequate to make a movie a masterpiece, even if more conventionally valuable qualities (story, themes, message ...
Jan 19, 2019 · ‘The Revenant’ is a 2015 film that is both a sprawling epic and an intimate biography, which covers a time in American history where the West was not yet settled, and both the elements and the native population could cause a settler or a trader to lose their lives all too quickly.
Jan 14, 2016 · With its gutsy scenes of backwoods endurance and its sublime mountain vistas, The Revenant is a cross between Werner Herzog’s gruelling travelogues (Aguirre Wrath of God, Rescue Dawn) and...
Jan 24, 2016 · It’s impossible to make a movie nowadays that goes in depth of a theme that another movie hasn’t analyzed already. The ideas “The Revenant” makes are not new, but are presented in an original and fascinating manner.
Jan 22, 2016 · “The Revenant” was shot in chronological order in the subzero, pristine wilds of Canada and Argentina, a decision by Iñárritu that imbues the film with a sense of realism and elevates it high above any other man versus nature drama.
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