Powerful

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2019)

I unexpectedly loved this. Easily Jeremy Renner's best performance. The landscape was as much a character as anyone else in the film too. The snow and isolation added a real sense of dread and atmosphere to the movie.
Excellent pace and plot. Elizabeth Olsen definitely has some good acting chops also and shares great onscreen chemistry with Renner. Is it the happiest movie? No. It's pretty dark and has many confronting themes, even for a movie of its kind. But it was satisfying. The final act was jaw on the floor type stuff - I definitely let out an audible "wow" during the last 20 minutes.
And then to top it all off, it's inspired by actual events and highlighted the plight of the many missing Native American women whom no statistics are recorded for.
Powerful. Emotional. The best film I've seen this year.. so far.