Samantha Payne, a detective, reopens a 15-year-old Missing Persons case, and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth even if it means risking her own life.
It's a mess, a complete and utter mess, but shockingly, the movie is rarely dull, embracing just enough of Duvall's dedication to realism to make it bearable.
These competing narratives are connected haphazardly by visual transitions that feel like someone sat on the DVD remote, plus jarring tonal shifts between intimate conversations and tire-spinning car chases.
Tonally dissonant and narratively disjointed, "Wild Horses" plays like a patchwork quilt of scenes excerpted from a much longer movie, or maybe even a miniseries.
