10 Reasons To Believe The Revenant Could Be The Best Film Of 2015

9) It’s A Mixture Of Intense Survival Drama And Silent Movie

With recent releases like The Martian, The Walk and Everest, 2015 has been feeling like the year of movies in which man tests his own limits against insane odds. Really, it’s part of a wider current trend of survival stories in cinema, with other recent examples like Gravity and All Is Lost representing the peak of the newly flourishing sub-genre.

Now, The Revenant is set to join them, as one of the greatest true survival stories of all-time is put to film by one of the finest creative teams assembled this year.

Not only is The Revenant part of a recent trend of great survival cinema, but it’s also set to become a part of the minor – yet significant – silent movie revival. Recent efforts like The Artist, Tabu, and All Is Lost have taken advantage of the opportunities offered by largely dialogue-free tales, and – according to Leonardo DiCaprio (he apparently says “almost nothing” in the film) – The Revenant will surely follow suit.