'Wind River' Review: Olsen and Renner are exceptional! Taylor Sheridan is superb!

🌟Wind River🌟Review🌟8.5/10🌟

Directed by Taylor Sheridan

Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner and even the sensational Jon Bernthal makes an appearance

Taylor Sheridan's true achievement in this film lies in his success in crafting an old school crime drama that doesn't try to re-invent the genre but instead relies on good old-fashioned storytelling.

Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen are both exceptional as a dissimilar pair who out of sheer coincidence form an alliance to solve the mystery of a young woman's brutal murder on an Indian reservation in Wyoming (Wind River). Renner is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker with a dozen other skills. Olsen is an FBI agent sent on an assignment all alone.

The narrative remains quite low-key but gradually builds toward its enticing conclusion. We come to learn quite a lot about Renner's character through his intriguing, painful backstory. He's quite understated and very effective in this role. Olsen enters the picture as an outsider to the bleak region of despair that the American wilderness is portrayed as here. She must learn quickly in order to do her job and most importantly what she believes is right or leave a possible crime completely unsolved.

Because this film deals with life on an Indian reservation, much of the social and economic woes might seem unfamiliar at first, but the film does a good job of providing a snapshot of the hardship that pervades in this part of the country and the difficulty that law enforcement has in conducting even a workmanlike investigation. Sheridan depicts a world that is sympathetic and troubled at the same time, masking its tears with courage and doggedness. Recommended to everyone especially marvel lovers.