Some movies pack so many plots, subplots and characters into their running time that you just about need a chart to keep them all straight. Night Moves is not one of those movies.
It sticks to three basic characters and a slim plot that could be summarized in little more than a minute. None of this will surprise fans of director/co-writer Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff), who favors subtle character study over action, but other viewers should be prepared to exercise a little patience.
This is the kind of film we used to describe as “glacial” before the glaciers started melting and retreating due to global warming—which, by the way, is something the three protagonists presumably know something about. They’re all radical environmentalists, and they’ve come together to blow up a hydroelectric dam in the Pacific Northwest.
