Wind River

Rating: 6/10 (7 March 2020)

Wind River is a cold thriller set in and around a Native Indian reservation. The snowy and the cold temperatures is essentially the protagonist in this movie.
Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is a hunter in the mountains of Wyoming who has discovered a dead body of a teenage tribal girl.
Rookie FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives to investigate the case. However the medical examiner cannot label the case as a homicide. It was the subzero temperatures that killed her.
Lambert helps out Banner's investigations. He knows the landscape and the people. The dead girl was a friend of his own daughter who also died in suspicious circumstances several years earlier.
There is an underlying gloom to this movie. Everyone feels lost or displaced even Banner who arrives without the right clothes for the environment she is in. The reservation police chief (Graham Greene) adds some droll humour. The film has a message about Native Indian women who end up missing each year. However it ends as a moody visceral violent revenge film.