For those that have seen Wind River - what did you think of the ending? (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Also, if you don’t like the ending of a film while in the theater, do you ever rewrite the film in your mind after watching it? I constantly do this with movies that I find to have poor, rushed endings and that aren’t thought provoking. That’s what I did with Wind River

MAJOR SPOILERS

While I loved most of Wind River, I thought it turned into a generic vigilante film by the end, especially when Jeremy Renner’s character tortures the rapist without any remorse. It felt like Sheridan just wanted us to root for his actions without any moral ambiguity. I would have rewritten the ending to where Renner is actually trying to save the perpetrator (in order for him to have a proper trial) and is having a moral crisis in wether he should kill him or not, with Renner looking at his gun. But the perpetrator slowly dies in his arms as he’s going down the snowy mountain because of the cold. And Renner gets emotional while thinking about his daughter.

And I would have wanted the father of the girl to explicitly say that he doesn’t want Renner to enact revenge. Thus, the film still could have ended with the line “He went out with a whimper.”

Your thoughts?