Reservations

Rating: 7/10 (13 September 2017)

I am giving Wind River a 7 - "only" and "only" for the performances in the film. Each and every actor (until the last 10-15 minutes) is extremely good in this film. It is a movie with a lot of character actors and no real leading person - which turned out to work very well.
The story is predictable and very drawn out. For a movie that logs in at less than two hours, it feels a lot longer. The final act of the movie is just plain bad - it felt lazy and cheap - with a flashback scene to explain everything - which felt like someone could not find a way to write it well enough to have the facts found through detective work.
The final minutes hurt this movie. I won't divulge what happens, but it is not a plausible solution to the crime.
A better last act would have propelled this to a 9 - the script and last act could have put this at a 5-6, but the acting gives it a mean average of 7.