19 Ultimate Final Shoot-Outs Of Cinema History
12. Wind River (2017)
Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan likes constructing pulse-pounding and emotional devastating shoot-outs; Sicario’s cartel raid and Hell And High Water’s botched bank robbery are stellar examples of this. His recent directorial debut takes the cake though as the best of his third reel bullet fests.
A slow-burn murder mystery set around Elisabeth Olsen’s FBI agent investigating a murder in a rural Native-American community with only a haunted tracker (Jeremy Renner) providing any aspect of aid on her quest.
Things narrow down to a backwoods security team being implicated. Olsen heads to the location with an in-adept group of small-town cops to do some casual questioning when…Olsen is blasted through her vest and all hell breaks loose.
It's cops vs security as they proceed to empty clips at each-other at a frenzied close-range. All looks dire for the good guys until Renner’s expert marksman joins the party and literally makes the villains do backflips from his high-powered rifle.
The entire thing is over almost as soon as it begins but it doesn’t make this fierce culmination - to an involving and heart-breaking story - less powerful, not to mention satisfying, when those responsible finally get their due.