A somber and stoic animal tracker still grieving is offered a chance for vengeance

Rating: 8/10 (10 March 2020)

Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is a big game animal tracker in Wyoming who hunts down lions to eek out a living. After losing his young daughter through an unsolved murder a second young lady named Natalie (Kelsey Asbille) is found dead on the frozen Wyoming Native American reservation without any snow shoes on her feet and she was raped and murdered. Cory speaks to Natalie's grieving father and personal friend Martin (Gil Birmingham) with great empathy after losing his own daughter to an unsolved murder. Martin tells Cory if he chooses to assist the FBI in hunting down his daughter's killer(s) to spare no mercy to these savage killer(s).
When a rookie FBI agent named Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) is assigned to investigate this latest murder on the Native American reservation land she quickly realizes that she needs the assistance of the experienced tracker Cory Lambert to just survive on the harsh and frozen surrounding white hills.
I always enjoy these type of crime/drama revenge films if they are done well without embellishment of how awesome the hero/heroine is by miraculously defeating more than two dozen faceless lackies 'a la Steven Seagal. No, this mystery/thriller is void of any long winded overblown fights of one man versus an army. Rather, it focuses on how our experienced tracker Cory Lambert not only wants to track the person/people responsible for raping and killing his friend Martin's daughter but utilizing this opportunity to free himself from continuing internalizing his own grief for the unsolved murder of his own daughter. So Cory gladly joins the inexperienced female FBI agent who has never prepared herself for the harshness of the frozen Wyoming wilderness and they set out to solve the crime.
Jeremy Renner always dives deep into his roles and unlike many of the made-to-model pretty boys who usually get these starring roles Renner's performance is both somber and stoic and you can't help but root for him and you know he is going to get these S.O.B.'s. It's a classic good versus evil cat and mouse chase but with a twist, this man is also on a personal mission to help ease his own personal grief for failing to save his own daughter and not finding her killer(s). He won't fail this time. Mrs. Shullivan and I greatly enjoyed this particular hunt and are even bigger fans of Jeremy Renner after his stellar performance.
An 8 out 10 rating well worth watching!!!