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The Revenant Review

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Inspired by true events and Michael Punke's novel of the same name, The Revenant, Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu's follow-up to Birdman, chronicles the almost unimaginable ordeal of fur trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), who was mauled by a bear and left for dead by his men in the frozen wilderness of 1823 America ... only to survive and then seek his revenge. Hugh Glass was basically a real-life Chuck Norris joke -- only no one thought it was very funny when he showed up half-dead and looking to kick some serious ass.

The film begins with a fur trapping expedition -- led by Captain Henry (Domhnall Gleeson), whose members include the scout Glass, Glass' half-Native American son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), the scowling, self-interested trapper Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), and young Jim Bridger (Will Poulter), who will one day become one of the Old West's most legendary mountain men -- coming under attack by a party of Arikara.

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