The Revenant
While exploring uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home while avoiding natives on their own hunt. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald, the former confidant who betrayed and abandoned him.
BigRett reviewed
September 24, 2025•
Ah, The Revenant, or as we should really call it, “Pulp Fiction goes wilderness survival but with more bears and less clever banter.” Tarantino showed us that audiences will happily follow morally gray characters through chaos, suffering, and questionable decisions, and Alejandro González Iñárritu just took that lesson and cranked the snow, blood, and brutality to eleven. The nonlinear narrative? Sure, Revenant plays it straight, but every grueling flashback and gut-wrenching struggle whispers, “Tarantino taught them well.” Characters stumble, suffer, and survive (or don’t), style oozes through every frozen frame, and themes of vengeance and obsession hit like a punchline with a scowl...exactly the kind of storytelling audacity Pulp Fiction made palatable. Basically, without Tarantino’s blueprint of chaotic brilliance and morally messy heroes, we’d just have Leonardo wandering in the snow looking cold and sad instead of delivering a cinematic masterclass in pain, perseverance, and subtle snark.