Wind River (2017)

Great Film overall

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The acting in this movie is really good.

What can I say? Expected big things but was pretty disappointed. The only redeeming part was performance of Jeremy Renner, but rest of acting was poor. Lead actress (Olsen) was supposed to be a fully trained and competent FBI agent, but behaved more like a prom princess with a nervous disposition. Storyline was confusing and a lot of pointless scenes. Ending was good but had to wait 1 hr 40 m for that. I have rated 4/10.

One review noted how bad the sound was. I could not hear much of anything in the first ten minutes. I kept turning the sound up and then a gun would go off and hurt my ears. This was such a hassle that I turned on the subtitles & left the sound alone. This was a serious technical flaw that is surprising today. I thought it was a very good movie until the standoff at the drilling site. The gun fight made almost no sense and it seemed pointless to kill so many people. The scene could have involved fewer people and been menacing and very tight. The big opportunity missed was when Renner's character tracked down the killer, Pete, and got him to confess. When he let him go to walk barefoot in the snow, the ending would have been a lot more satisfactory if Pete had collapsed and the last thing he saw was the mountain lion and her cubs fixing to have dinner.I gave this seven stars because the critical moment was too lame, too Hollywood, and not effective. The sound track was terrible and there is no excuse for that.If sound had been better and that scene at the oil rig had been tightened up and more realistic I might have been given this eight stars. If the lions had gotten to feed on Pete, it would earn nine.

What kind of sick person would shoot a real coyote for the purpose of entertainment? They claim that this was a taxidermy but it clearly was not, you can see all the limbs flying and going soft, watch it frame by frame, it is fluent and it was shot in one scene, what a bunch of disgusting liars.

This film is absolutely great. One of the best I've seen as of recent times and is now among my favourite films of all time, or at least of 2017. The performances are great all around, Renner's best performance since the hurt locker. Not the happiest film, and there are some hard to watch scenes, but that only makes it better in my eyes. The action scenes hit hard, and the setting feels like a character in its own right. The run time felt a little short, and I would of loved an extra 10 minutes or so, to tie things up and add more character to the leads. But overall this film is amazing, and I can't recommend it enough. The statistic at the end also shocked me.