The Revenant 2015

The Revenant 2015

By: Ghost Writer

One just can deny Leonardo DiCaprio impressive performance on González Iñárritu's newest movie The Revenant (without a doubt DiCaprio is the most powerful actor of his generation), he is an actor totally abandoned to the will of Iñárritu's vision, and the result is a powerful marathon of acting, emotive, intense and brutal, impossible to ignore, as it kinds of remind me of the punishment Jim Caviezel had to endure during Mel Gibson´s powerful and painful The Passion of the Christ.

On the very first scenes, in the middle of the cruel forest, The Revenant remind me immediately of Werner Herzog's amazing Aguirre, The Wrath of God, it has that man against almighty powerful nature thing, I wasn't exactly in shock, given the fact that Werner Herzog's movie preceded Iñárritu's series of strong images, while Herzog's own documental Grizzly Man, in a way also touched certain ideas presented on Iñárritu's work (Herzog has always been a very cherished director in México, his movies presented at the Cineteca Nacional always gather big crowds), I'm not exactly impressed by the fact that I recently saw Liam Neeson's The Grey, so the thing of man versus cruel nature doesn't come as a surprise or as a shock, but there's more to The Revenant as a revenge is also one of the main themes on the movie, and this, too long journey to get revenge, is perhaps what makes The Revenant a consuming experience.

The Revenant unfairly will be remembered by the fight scene between DiCaprio and a bear, it's a painful scene, it makes real what Herzog only suggested on Grizzly Man, it's just as nightmarish as the rape scene on Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, as disgusting as you can expect, an experiment on shocking the senses, The Revenant is an outstanding movie, with a great performance by DiCaprio, but it doesn't surpass the great Birdman, Iñarritu´s astonishing masterpiece.