The detective was irrelevant to the plot

Rating: 7/10 (27 February 2016)

Pros: - Huge gave a huge performance - Almost all the characters were believable. - Not a horrible story. - The kept the "annoying females crying/screeming but doing nothing about the situation" to a minimum.
Cons: - The detective guy (Gyllen Haal) was absolutely irrelevant to the plot. He could have been absent and the film would have been the same. Just send one of the cops(anyone) to that woman to let her know that her nephew was found. That random person could have shot that woman and saved the day. Other than this one random fluke, the guy had no contribution towards solving the case. This fluke could have been attributed to damn near about anyone who was sent to give her the news about her nephew. - The father (Huge) does all the detective works in the movie. Which makes you wonder why the actual detective was being presented as some genius Sherlock Holmes in the beginning of the film. Yeah, they were bragging about how he solved every damn case he came across. Ironically, this movie is about the one where he didn't contribute at all. - The detective seemed totally indifferent to the father's reaction after showing him the images of his daughter's blood soaked socks. He wasn't even trying to show that he was sorry through body language/facial expression.
It is actually the story about the negligence of the police in that town. If you think about it, you'll realise that if the cops only did their job, they'd be the one discovering what the father discovered. But heck! They had other things to do such as reading up old newspaper about the father(Huge)'s dad and following the father around. They invested time and resources into everything but solving the actual crime. I mean, really? They actually believed that someone with an IQ of 10 roams around with a caravan and could take dogs out for walks at night? This forces me to conclude that the story was about police failures, not psycho killers.