Frankly, I do not understand how any producer could finance such a pointless film, or how a director could do so little to improve what must have been a poor script to start off with.

For one thing, the single most magnetic performer, Chastain, disappears from the film for long spells, and apart from unhesitatingly shooting dead a wounded deer, she makes no significant contribution in terms of character or deeds, and unexpectedly as well as needlessly, uses bad language with a cop, which is not a wise thing to do, especially if that cop produces a warrant to search your house.

The most baffling thing of all is, however, the constant attention given to Oscar Isaac, a very limited actor who plays a kind of latter day Hamlet unable to take action against whoever keeps attacking his trucks and stealing his fuel, until he has no option but resort to his own bit of violence. He is obviously a good looking man, or he would not have been the lead to the stunningly beautiful Chastain, but his acting lets him down, and he is not helped by his unremittingly pure character, which is hardly credible under the circumstances. Ultimately, I found his character exhasperating.

And then there is the totally pointless re-appearance of one of his drivers who had been the target of attacks, and been absent from the film for a considerable while after apparently succeeding in eluding police, only to blow his own brains out when he could have whacked Isaac. As if that idiocy were not bad enough, in the process he puts a hole through one of Isaac's fuel tanks, and the latter duly tried to block the leak with a useless piece of cloth.

Hmmm...

Soundtrack, direction, photography all mediocre. Definitely a film I will not watch again.