Review of Wind River (2017) by Matthewakalusi — 11 Sep 2017
Wind River focuses on the real life problem of missing and murdered Native American women. It features Jeremy Renner as Cory Lambert, a US Fish and Wildlife Service Tracker who, while on a routine patrol in the Wind River Indian Reservation, in the US state of Wyoming, discovers the frozen body of a dead woman, and Elizabeth Olsen as FBI Agent Jane Banner, sent to investigate the victim’s cause of death, who enlists the help of Renner’s character as she does so.
The movie is notable for its sweeping aerial scenes of the beautiful Wyoming winter landscape, emotional scenes, one particularly wrenching, involving Olsen’s character, Renner’s character’s grit and Graham Green’s assured supporting performance as Tribal Police Chief Ben.
The violence is graphic but not out of place given the subject matter. It is a well made movie.
This review of Wind River (2017) was written by Matthewakalusi on 11 September 2017.
Wind River has generally received very positive reviews.
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