Another great thriller from Taylor Sheridan

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2017)

Taylor Sheridan is one of my favorite film writers and now in the director's chair, he has made a film of equal caliber. Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is a Fish & Wildlife hunter who has experienced tragedy in his past. He works on the Wind River Reservation where he discovers the body of a young woman. The jurisdiction of the reservation territory means that Sheriff Ben (Graham Greene) must call in the FBI. The agent that arrives, Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olson), is inexperienced to the cold and investigating the death of a missing person. She has to borrow clothes from Lambert's in-laws to go out into the cold. These same clothes belonged to Cory's daughter who went missing and was later found dead under mysterious circumstances. The victim Natalie (Kelsey Asbille) had run six miles in the blistering cold before her lungs finally gave out.
Jane and Cory cooperate to figure out who did heading first to a trailer where the victim's brother and other drug addicts are shacked up. Sheriff Ben and Jane knock on the door but end up getting maced in the eyes by one addict. Jane has to kill him when he draws a weapon. Cory interviews Natalie's brother to find out what happened and who she was dating. He reveals that she was dating an oil worker named Matt (Jon Bernthal) who is also discovered dead. Cory confesses to Jane what happened to his daughter that ruined his marriage and motivates him to help the investigation. Following the clues leads them to the drilling station nearby. Jane and Sheriff Ben call in additional state police officers to help them search the trailers.
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