{"id":16852,"date":"2017-11-09T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=16852"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:15:22","slug":"review-wind-river-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2017\/11\/review-wind-river-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind River BD + Screen Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Wind River<\/em><\/strong> is easily the best movie I\u2019ve seen over the past few years, though admittedly I gravitate more toward slow-burn crime-dramas and it\u2019s a great follow-up to Hell or High Water<\/em> and is an excellent directorial debut for Taylor Sheridan.<\/p>\n

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Wind River<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Drama, Crime
\nLionsgate | R \u2013 107 min. \u2013 $34.99 | November 14, 2017<\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 11\/09\/2017 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n

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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Directed by: <\/strong>Taylor Sheridan
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Taylor Sheridan (written by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n<\/u><\/strong>Features: <\/strong>Featurettes, Deleted Scenes
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>Yes
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 2.35
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>26.5 GB
\nCodecs: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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THE MOVIE \u2014 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Note: <\/strong>This review contains SPOILERS<\/strong> on the plot, so readers beware.<\/p>\n

Survive or surrender.<\/p>\n

The riveting Wind River<\/em><\/strong> marks Taylor Sheridan\u2019s third film in his modern American West genre, following Sicario<\/em> and Hell or High Water<\/em> and marks his directorial debut. These movies spotlight some of the more unfamiliar and oft forgotten elements of American society, far away from the bright lights of Los Angeles and Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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The film takes place in the tiny Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Cory Lambert (JEREMY RENNER) works to rid the area of animal predators and soon finds himself on the hunt for the human variety when he comes upon the body of 18-year-old Natalie Hanson, the daughter of a good friend. The girl had been raped and murdered.<\/p>\n

The FBI sends in young agent Jane Banner (ELIZABETH OLSEN) to investigate, much to the bemusement of the locals, including the girl\u2019s father (GIL BIRMINGHAM). Banner enlists Lambert\u2019s help to be a guide for the area and soon enough follow clues that lead to some of the more sketchy folks in the region.<\/p>\n

On the surface, this neo-Western thriller is rather straight-forward with the story but this is less about finding the killer, which is more of a revelation rather than some sort of a twist and instead is a story of grief and sorrow with Renner\u2019s Lambert character having dealt with the unsolved death of his own daughter, thus tenaciousness to work with Banner.<\/p>\n

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While the supporting actors were decent, with some nice scenes with the underappreciated Gil Birmingham who played Bridges\u2019 Texas Ranger partner in Hell or High Water<\/em> and Jon Bernthal in a small but significant role, the film is carried by Jeremy Renner\u2019s low key but emotionally vulnerable performance that I hope will land him some award recognition. Elizabeth Olsen meanwhile is fine though not entirely memorable, though playing the outsider did work within the story.<\/p>\n

A slow-burning modern Western, Wind River<\/em><\/strong> was written and directed by Taylor Sheridan and for me makes it 3\/3 with his films, although I\u2019d probably rank Sicario<\/em> as my personal favorite, this second and Hell or High Water<\/em> a close third. What I\u2019ve liked about his movies is while they generally are straight-forward in terms of the plot, the way he\u2019s written these characters, it\u2019s perhaps some of the more realistic portrayals with nary a false vibe with any of them. Along with the strongly written script, the direction was equally tight the running time is only 100-minutes not wasting time with superfluous scenes. Less is more done right.<\/p>\n

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As a side, nothing to do with the movie, both The Weinstein Company name and Harvey Weinstein himself, were scrubbed from both the box art and movie itself.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 2.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This release comes with a matted slip cover<\/strong> and inside is a redemption code for the Digital HD<\/strong> copy. The selection of features is sadly lacking.<\/p>\n

Deleted Scenes (3:11; HD)<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 Only two scenes here and nothing of consequence.<\/p>\n

Behind the Scenes Video Gallery (9:54; HD)<\/u><\/strong> are promotional featurettes and interviews with Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen and Taylor Sheridan.<\/p>\n

Preview<\/strong> \u2013 The Hero<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Lionsgate releases Wind River<\/em><\/strong> onto Blu-ray presented with a 2.35 widescreen aspect ratio and a 1080p high-definition transfer. In keeping with the neo-Western vibe, colors were a bit toned down yet there are some splashes such as blood in the pure white snow and detail was impressively sharp throughout.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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AUDIO \u2013 4.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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The movie comes with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is fairly strong providing both clean dialogue levels through the center channel as well as the haunting and spiritual score from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (Hell or High Water<\/em>) which envelops the front and, particularly, rear speakers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 4.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Overall, Wind River<\/em><\/strong> is easily the best movie I\u2019ve seen over the past few years, though admittedly I gravitate more toward slow-burn crime-dramas and it\u2019s a great follow-up to Hell or High Water<\/em> and is an excellent sophomore effort for Taylor Sheridan. The Blu-ray release offers up solid video\/audio transfers but the features were rather bland.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Wind River is easily the best movie I\u2019ve seen over the past few years, though admittedly I gravitate more toward slow-burn crime-dramas and it\u2019s a great follow-up to Hell or High Water and is an excellent directorial debut for Taylor Sheridan.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1607,5000,5668,1372,1974],"class_list":["post-16852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","tag-elizabeth-olsen","tag-gil-birmingham","tag-graham-greene","tag-jeremy-renner","tag-jon-bernthal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16854,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16852\/revisions\/16854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}