Great genre bender

Rating: 8/10 (17 July 2018)

The main plot of the story is a mother trying to get justice for her daughter who was raped and killed 7 months ago while the cops have no leads. She tries to get this justice by putting up some billboards putting the cops, particularly the chief (Woody Harrelson) on blast. For a movie like this it has a ton of laughs on the way which is why I say genre bending. Her plan worked to and extent in that it brings the case to the forefront but it has a ton of unforeseen ramifications. The chief actually has cancer and winds up killing himself (although he wrote a note saying it wasn't because of her billboards). This inspired a horrible cop in the unit (I think Sam Rockwell) to throw a guy who put the billboards up out of a two story window which causes him to lose his job. You'd think he'd get an assault charge here as well but there's a lot of things like that you have to just overlook in this movie. For whatever reason the same cop that did that also got a note from the chief which inspired him to be a good cop and try to find the killer. He failed but settles on possibly going with that mom to try to kill a different rapist. Oh and the mom burned down the police station and badly burnt Rockwell's face at some point but he ain't mad at her. Sounds like non-sense but the movie's legitimately great.