"A carefully constructed, brooding murder mystery set in the remote wilderness of Wyoming.
Jeremy Renner plays a hunter who discovers a murdered teenager on an Native American reservation and, after been asked to use his skills to help by a young FBI agent, tries to unravel the mystery behind the death - all set to a bleak unrelenting snow bleached landscape.
It's a slow burner that lets you absorb the cold and hostile environment these characters lived in. Every character who lives here is self destructing in some way, either internal or external, and the audience tries to work out who is choosing what - there's a perpetual sense of tiredness, malaise, and apathy that all who live in this frozen world deal with daily.
As the mystery unravels and the stakes rise, the morality or lack thereof from the people we follow is understandable even if completely reprehensible.
"All they have is snow and silence" Renner states near the end of the film and that, even after a vicarious revenge is won, is also what the audience is left with"
- 8/10
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