Angry and profane characters, could have been much better.

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2018)

This movie received lots of Oscar buzz and the actors really are great. My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library.
There are a number of writer/directors who relish in angry, profane characters with few redeeming values. This is one of those movies.
Frances McDormand is Mildred, divorced and angry, mostly because her daughter was raped and killed 7 months earlier and she doesn't think the local police are working hard enough on the case.
On the small road to her rural home she notes three old, dilapidated billboards and decides to use them to poke fun at the local police chief, hoping to shame him into working harder on her daughter's case.
Sam Rockwell is one of the mostly inept local cops, Dixon. He is a drunk and a hot head. The captain is played by Woody Harrelson as Willoughby. He has a not-so-secret secret, that he is dying from cancer.
Ultimately the movie turns into a revenge story, and it doesn't even matter if the revenge is towards the guilty ones. Overall mostly a disappointment because this could have been a much better movie if it had been better written and the characters made a bit more appealing.