REVENANT Resurrection – Critic.Work

Following last year's hit Birdman, director Alejandro González Iñárritu has made another big hit. He has put nature, a bear and already Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. What did it bring? More Oscars and a lot of awards, indeed.

For once, his court cinematographer (Emmanuel Lubezki) proved that he likes to push the limits of filmmaking. After Descendants of Men, Gravity and Birdman, he's once again shot some more breathtaking scenes. This time of nature and wilderness, where even human feet have not trodden.

The main character is Hugh Glass, a trapper who hunts game and collects their pelts for a living, is attacked by a bear in his work in the wild west. Nearly killed and left in the woods by a friend who cares only for money and his own health, rather than carrying him half-dead to the fort where he will be cared for. To add to the experience of the sufferer's journey to "civilization," the writers have fleshed out the characters with Frenchmen who will stop at nothing, Indians who are out for their revenge, and of course Hugh Glass' own descendant, a half-Indian who is killed at just the right moment.

The Resurrection Blu-ray should be in every hiker's collection, every nature lover's, and all lovers of lower-quality digital media. The picture is perfect, everything the camera captures has its correct colors and the best thing about the picture is that for the first time Black on film = Black on your monitor. Every pixel lets us savor the nature of the American continent and the journey of a half-dead Leonardo DiCaprio to redemption and life.

Of course, keep the sound in the original, the nature is perfect even in my 5.1 in the living room you could hear every creak of the little branch. It is certain that you will also hear every breath of a man about to die, as well as the gun shots and the angry roars of a mother bear defending her offspring.

You can also listen to the Czech dub, it falls short of the American original, we wouldn't expect that. Michal Jagelka, who is Leonardo's court dubber, simply wasn't chosen. Whether it was a dubbing crisis or he's just not cut out for it, no one knows. Marek Holý had an additional go at the American star, so nothing is lost, and I think the new voice fits the film. Leonardo DiCaprio is no longer a young man, he's pushing 50, and the film is about the harsh nature that marks every character who lives in it. Michal Jagelka just wouldn't be a good fit, even if he tried very hard.

I think the Blu-ray of REVENANT RESURRECTION is the medium of the year, so I'm bidding for it to be on every film connoisseur's shelf.