Enjoyable but Flawed

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2018)

Four of us watched this together after which we had a fairly balanced dissection of the film including the role of women in the film. Although it (just) passed the Bechdel test there was a needless shot of bare flesh as titillation yet the background story is supposedly focused on the injustice towards native american women. Indeed it states this misleadingly in the ending credits whereas the film is actually told from the point of view of the hunter played by Jeremy Renner.
Also it seemed that the FBI agent, played by Elizabeth Olsen, was inserted as the female interest in much the same way that the director used Emily Blunt in Sicario.
So even though we felt the film misrepresented itself, the central story was still very interesting and compelling to watch.