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Admirable film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

What a powerful, hard hitting and beautifuly crafted piece of cinema! Pigeon holed into a genre where it far surpasses its contemporaries! Skillfully filmed, superbly acted and extremely well written. I can not recommend this film enough! So much better than the mainstream generic movies that Hollywood gives us these days, no super heroes or guaranteed sequels 'just' an original and powerful story.

Wind River's director Taylor Sheridan follows up his acclaimed screenplays for of 2016 Hell or High Water and 2015 Denis Villeneuve's Sicario with his first directorial effort.. Wind River is another modern-day western, full of tense action and tough, taciturn characters trying to navigate life on the fringes of America. But if Sicario and especially Hell or High Water explored the damaging legacy of the frontier myth on a country that's rigged to favor the few, then Wind River makes the connection more forceful, set as it is on a Native American reservation that's been left to its own devices with none of the infrastructure necessary to let its inhabitants thrive. The film opens with the death of a young woman. Discovered miles from anywhere in the frozen wilds of Wyoming's Wind River reservation, she's found and identified by Jeremy Renner (Cory Lambert), a game tracker with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He knows the girl, knows her family, knows that something horrifying must have forced this Native American teenager to run barefoot through the night until her lungs packed up. Wind River may be considered slow and boring for many as the film isn't the typical crime drama, though within the second half of the film, it picks up and becomes completely engaging. The acting from the cast is what sells the film, as well as the cinematography of the outdoors. The shots are well done. Although somewhat of a predictable mystery as we see the film descend, the second act of the film makes up for it. Recommend.

They killed a coyote for this movie and lied about it! The movie does not carry a "no naimals were harmed" tag and no animal rights/protection group was assigned to monitor while filming. Red flags everywhere! Plain and simple, they killed an animal for this movie!

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.