This is an advance review from Fantastic Fest. Hold the Dark opens in theaters and streams on Netflix on Sept. 28.
Hold the Dark, Jeremy Saulnier’s first feature since Green Room, is about the complexity and randomness of human behavior compared to that of wild animals, yet no amount of unsettling violence, mythology or gorgeous set pieces can save this beautiful-looking but ultimately disappointing film.
Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright, TV’s most confused-looking actor, stars here as yet another character who has no idea what’s going on. Author Russell Core (Wright) is summoned to a remote Alaskan village by a desperate mother asking him to hunt down a wolf. Medora Slone (Riley Keough) is said grieving mother, whose husband Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård) is away in Iraq. Slone’s village has a history of children being snatched by wolves, making Core her only hope to track down the beast and kill it in revenge – despite Core being an advocate for wolf preservation.
Source: IGN.com Netflix's Hold the Dark Review