Genre:
Thriller
Directed
by: Joe Canahan
Starring:
Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney
Running
time: 117 minutes
A
group of oil-rig workers find themselves stranded in the mountains of Alaska
when their plane crashes. Those who survived the crash will have to battle the
rugged elements and the rabid wolves roaming around the area if they want to
have any hope of making it out of there alive.
It
took me a while to get into this particular film. When the movie starts, we get
kind of lost in the thoughts of the main character John Ottway (Neeson).
Through his internal dialogue, we get a feel for the group we are seeing at
work and the task at hand for them. That whole part seemed kind of uninspired
in the delivery to me. I just could not seem to care. Once the plane crashes
and the survivors have to spring into action, and Ottway gets out of his
thoughts, things start to get interesting.
The
scenes involving wolves attacking human beings are not for the faint of heart.
They feel very real, even for a disillusioned soul such as I. We do feel the isolation
of those men having to walk in deep snow and be on a constant lookout for the
mean beasts walking around.
Definitely
not the best Liam Neeson movie I have ever seen, but a very decent film. The Grey
starts very slow, but, when business picks up, it pulls you in. For those who
want to give it a shot, tough it out. It is the kind of movie that gets better
as it goes along, ending with a nice little twist at the end.
Rating:
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