Review of Wind River (2017) by Tuneison — 18 Jan 2019

Wind River feels like the kind of movie that in 10 years nobody will remember. Every aspect about its presentation that is good is complemented by an aspect of its presentation that is bad. Ultimately, it's just unremarkable, and kind of bland. To delve further into this, I'd like to express what exactly it did right and did wrong.

Right:

- Cinematography, the choice to over expose some scenes was really a smart choice, and added to the film's style.

- Jeremy Renner is a great actor.

- The scenes without music where powerful.

- The effects involving blood where great.

- Directing was pretty great.

- It was pretty well written.

Wrong.

- The conversations where boringly edited.

- Elizabeth Olsen was terrible.

- The scenes with music were cheesey and stupid.

- The snow effects looked like ****.

- The choice to "show what happened" would've been much more powerful if it was explained in that one scene on the mountain, rather than shown. (at least imo).

- There were some really corny scenes, particularly the one where Jeremy Renner was talking about his daughter.

Sorry for the scattered thoughts, but it's 10:13 and I really can't write anything cohesive.