Extended Episode of a TV Series

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2017)

I saw "Wind River", starring Jeremy Renner-The Avengers movies, American Hustle; Elizabeth Olsen-The Avengers movies, Godzilla_2014; Graham Greene-Longmire_tv, the Twilight movies and Jon Bernthal-Baby Driver, The Walking Dead_tv.
This is a murder mystery that takes place on a Native American reservation in Wyoming. It is based on true events. An 18 year old Indian girl is found dead out on the snow covered mountains by Jeremy, the local wild game tracker. Jeremy was married to an Indian woman, had a daughter with her and then she too disappeared, under mysterious circumstances, years earlier. An F.B.I. agent, Elizabeth, is called in to run the investigation-she was the closest agent at the time-and does not have any experience with tracking in the snow, so she enlists Jeremy to assist her. Graham plays the reservation police chief and Jon is an oil worker that just might be a person of interest. It's not a bad movie. It's kind of like an extended version of a TV series with more violence. Just before the end credits start, a statement appears on screen saying something to the effect that the government does not keep statistics on girls that disappear from reservations so there is no way to know how many have actually disappeared. It's rated "R" for violence, a rape scene, disturbing images and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 47 minutes. I don't know if I would buy it on DVD but it would be a good rental.