Longmire redo

Rating: 6/10 (18 September 2017)

This is a mildly entertaining film, although pretty formula and predictable: the revenge aspect; the hero divorced, alone and haunted by the past; the young female agent who appears weak but acts heroically; the unlikely shootings. As someone who has spent a lifetime in law enforcement, I had to suspend belief but could not totally avoid these rather obvious problems with the narrative: Why an FBI agent from Vegas, WY in Denver Field Div and there are agents in Wyoming. Was it just to have someone without warm clothes? The very thin justification for lone SA being assigned completely collapses after she kills someone, she would be writing reports and dozens of FBI SAs and bosses would have been on scene. First shooting makes no sense and is not really relevant to the plot. What oil company pays for an army of guards to protect a remote drilling site? Actions of the suspects makes no sense, clean up scene and play dumb. Discovery of second body entirely too convenient. Efforts to portray film as addressing problems of sexual assault are a bit transparent, writers felt the need to portray perpetrators as outsiders, hardly the most likely scenario.