The REVENANT Stars Leo DiCaprio-He Should Get an Oscar

The REVENANT is an epic story of survival and revenge set in the harsh, wintry western frontier in the 1820's.  The untamed frontier & brutal winter landscape are finely featured.  The cinematography is breathtaking. I was swept into the freezing waterfalls.  I felt the bitter cold & filth on screen.  Nature is a force to be reckoned with but man's harshest enemy is not the elements but man himself.  Revenant is the story of Glass (DiCaprio,) who seemingly returns from the dead.  Glass lived among the Pawnee tribe.  He & his son survived a horrific massacre against their tribe.  Glass becomes a hired guide for his exceptional survival & navigating skills.  His strengths are no match for a mother grizzly who nearly mauls Glass to death, rendering him lame & near death.  (Glass' tangle with the grizzly is unbearable yet riveting.  The regiment captain (Irish actor Domhall Gleeson, BROOKLYN) realizes he needs to leave Glass behind & pays a sinister soldier to stand vigil along with Glass' son & another young recruit.  Mexican director, Alejandro Inarritu (BIRDMAN) delivers an incredibly powerful story of survival, violence and revenge.  The dir. captures the savagery in the lawless, unchartered regions in all its gore & glory between numerous warring factions.  The REVENANT is a rare epic movie that elevates movie making to a higher plane.  The puny faults I found lied with the distracting score and the absence of breath vapors in such frigid conditions.   "Hold onto every breath."