A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect but since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was quite eager to check it out. To be honest, I have to admit that I did struggle a bit to get a good grip on this story (the fact I started a little bit late and was tired didn’t really help, I guess). It’s quite interesting because it turned out to be eventually a rather simple story after all. I mean, basically, Jeremy Renner played an incredibly skiled hunter who basically solved a crime by simply tracking some marks on the snow. The FBI agent played by Elizabeth Olsen was not bad either as she only had to figure out who was the boyfriend’s victim and where he lived to figure it all out. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I believe that the simplicity of the story was actually an asset as it made the whole thing much more realistic and believable than such similar movies with many far-fetched plot twists. Furthermore, I think it was pretty obvious that the plot was probably not Taylor Sheridan’s greatest concern. Basically, he focused mostly on the mood and also on creating a believable world and characters and that was where the movie really worked. Indeed, the mood turned a rather basic story into something quite intriguing and you really got a sense of this community which was tight thanks to a common set of beliefs but also by a shared amount of pain, sorrow and poverty. On top of that, Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen both gave some solid performances, even if Olsen had a rather thankless role after all but she made the must of it. Anyway, to conclude, even if I don’t think it was anything really ground-breaking, it was still a really solid thriller and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.