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The Grey

The Grey (2012)

January. 27,2012
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6.7
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R
| Adventure Drama Action Thriller

Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward toward civilization and safety, Ottway and his companions must battle mortal injuries, the icy elements, and a pack of hungry wolves.

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Exoticalot
2012/01/27

People are voting emotionally.

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Ariella Broughton
2012/01/28

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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Portia Hilton
2012/01/29

Blistering performances.

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Josephina
2012/01/30

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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jcoria
2012/01/31

Just a few comments about this Jack Londonesque movie. Beyond the surface this movie harpoons the great competitions of man versus man, man versus nature, man versus God and man versus himself. What the director was able to accomplish in this raw film is an inspiration. A man evolving from suicidal tendencies, a man who protected life but initially cares little of his own, revealed his true flesh of wanting to live. The ethereal remembrances provided a cloudy peek into his pain. The parallels of the pack of wolves and the pack of men within the indifferent universe. Oh my fellow watchers this visceral movie gives us hope, purpose and the untethered pang of raw survival. To rage against the cold, while the hungry wolves that lurk in our souls attempt to devour us. Those that rate this movie poorly lack the honed taste of organic storytelling. Shakespeare throughout this movie. Enter the Gray with fortitude and alacrity and your poem will write itself. Well done.

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petra_ste
2012/02/01

I like Liam Neeson a lot. Not only he can act; he is effortlessly cool, with a strong, magnetic presence many ripped colleagues half his age can only dream of.Neeson, by far the best thing about the picture, plays Ottway, one of the survivors of a plane crash in Alaska; the group struggles against cold, starvation and a pack of wolves. And what wolves they are...! Let's call them "schwolves", because they really have nothing in common with the actual Canis Lupus: relentless and sadistic, they make the Beast of the Gévaudan look like a Pomeranian.Artistic licenses about ethology aside, I am not too crazy about the movie's script by emerging screenwriter Joe Carnahan. First and more notable, even disregarding the schwolves, there is a streak of nonsense running through the story. Gritty survival dramas don't need to be 100% realistic but, more than in other genres, the characters' main decisions need to stand up to scrutiny. Ottway orders the group to abandon the plane's wreckage, where they would have partial shelter from cold and animals and at least a chance of being found... why? Because, he casually states as if it's not even worth discussing, nobody will find the plane. Oh, okay. Ever heard of ELTs?Then he pushes his companions to reach the woods, where they'll be, get this, safer from wolves. Am I missing something? Maybe the movie's schwolves just love plane wreckages but avoid woods? No they don't, woods prove to be most unsafe for the group. That's a truly shocking development.Am I supposed to think that Ottway is an idiot? Obviously not, because the script clearly wants us to be in awe of him and of the ludicrous factoids about animals and survival he spouts. Maybe his phone does have a signal and he is just googling this stuff from some very stupid site.Aside for Ottway, characters are flat and underdeveloped - except Frank Grillo's Diaz, who gets even too much exposure as the obligatory Angry Jerkass (of the more benign "who eventually learns to cooperate" variety). I am also not impressed by the movie's attempts at depth, with garden-variety nihilism and overcompensating masculine stoicism. Before the end there is a scene where Ottway screams his desperation at the sky... and God doesn't answer. Wow, deep. Good thing you have your dad's crap inspirational poem to motivate you, Ottway.A wasted opportunity; pity, because Neeson is always good and I enjoyed the straightforward premise, which does lead to some effectively tense moments.5,5/10

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markkecskes
2012/02/02

The movie was a little bit better than i was expected.(i read a couple reviews without spoilers before i watched it ) Liam Neeson's performance was truly outstanding,and i loved the way that the movie played with the different psychology between humans in the same circumstances.

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officialvelocyus
2012/02/03

Explicit language has been used. Reader discretion is advised. !Spoiler alert! Summary of the movie:"Hey we just crashed in the middle of nowhere, but this huge metal plane with huge metal parts that could be used to make a barricade and keep us safe in, doesn't sound like a very good idea so let's leave and head to the woods where a huge pack of bloodthirsty wolves is waiting for us, but somehow we'll be safer there.Also don't even bother getting some sharp metal parts of the plane as the ones we used to beat the wolves with in order to save our professional wolf hunter who magically survived after being mauled by two huge wolves. ZERO further need for weapons!We managed to kill a wolf because 12 Gauge shells exploding in open air at about 1 feet from our face, miraculously only kill what's in front of us, and we're good to go.Now we suddenly have a huge fire and we cook him and have a laugh, giving a total of zero damns about our friend who got mauled to death before our eyes a few minutes ago. All of us look in one direction during our happy episode in the forest, and the top predators hunting us in huge numbers don't attack us from behind.Next, we find a way to safely jump off a cliff over 400 meters tall, but when we reach down, the wolves are already waiting for us. They probably discovered a way of telleportation! A guy pretty much breaks his knee but is still able to walk through snow and keep up with two healthy guys for several miles, however he gets bored because he's a drunk loser, so he decides to give up by sitting ON A HUGE LOG NEAR A DAMN RIVER. We don't even consider going downriver on the log.All three of us are being chased by the same wolves, but we decide to stay and have a little fun talk, shake hands, and everything. Finally we get ourselves chased by two wolves, while we're slowly moving through huge snow, but somehow we can outrun them, until we fall in freezing water where one of us drowns and the last one gets back to land, giving a total of ZERO damns about being wet in below freezing temperatures.After magically drying off, he has a small existential crisis, but he shortly decides to keep moving until it reaches a wolf den.(IN WINTER WHEN WOLVES MIGRATE TO FIND FOOD) However despite being occupied with wolf cubs, the den it's unprotected, and our wolf hunter has plenty of time to go through a ton of memories until the wolves show up. The last survivor doesn't get mauled to death instantly by the pack, because the leader of the pack wants to show off in a 1v1, this of course after allowing our hero to make some glass knuckles."

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