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'The Revenant' is a Leonardo DiCaprio film through-and-through, boasting Tom Hardy plays the betrayer Fitzgerald, who murders Glass' son and leaves Glass to die of his wounds in a freshly dug grave. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a real-life frontier survivor, Hugh Glass, a widowed fur trapper and single father who was on an expedition through Montana and South Dakota in 1823 in the company of his half-Pawnee son when he was mauled by a bear. The movie is directed and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the multiple Oscar-winning director of ' Birdman' and the only director more likely than David Fincher to technically over-complicate things to such a perverse degree that the resultant movie becomes at once dazzling and monotonous. The process repeats itself for two-and-a-half hours, through gunfights and knife fights and animal attacks and avalanches and the like. In one scene, the movie's hero cauterizes a wound with gunpowder and fire, like Rambo in 'Rambo III.' 'The Revenant' is so manly that it becomes parody of manly movies and then somehow travels around the bend to become sublime before becoming ridiculous again. There are only two women characters in the film of any note one is dead and appears as a hallucination or ghost, and the other is raped by a French trapper and then turns the tables with the hero's help and slices off his testicles with a dagger. It is, rather paradoxically, both austere and extravagant, embracing a highly concentrated, at times minimalist visual aesthetic while piling on the machismo. It's so ridiculously macho that parts of it are hilarious, in the way that certain R-rated 1980's action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone are hilarious. To my surprise, 'The Revenant' scratched both itches. I hesitated at the ticket window because the same theater was playing 'Hail Caesar' and a part of me thought it might be better to see something funny.

I saw it in a theater because I had a rare kid-free evening and was in the mood for a big-screen spectacle. ' The Revenant' is the greatest Man Cave movie of the last ten years, made to be viewed from a black leather sofa.

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