The Grey (2012)
Thursday, February 2nd, 20127/10
Joe Carnahan
117 minutes
Liam Neeson,
Dermot Mulroney,
Joe Anderson,
James Badge Dale,
Dallas Roberts,
Frank Grillo,
Nonso Anozie,
Ben Bray
The Grey is a multi-layered survival pic that really puts you right in with the group and offers some tense scenes and incredibly menacing foes. The slow and moody atmosphere may deter some people who went in expecting a fast-paced thriller, but if you forget the misleading trailers and accept it for what it is, you'll see that this is definitely one of the better and more memorable survival man-vs-nature films to come out in years.
From dirty cops, overzealous hitmen, flying tanks, and now murderous wolves, director Joe Carnahan has had an interesting career the past decade and he really surprised me with The Grey. Not just because I liked it, but also because the film was actually quite different than how it was portrayed in trailers. While all the footage seemed to depict a really ballsy fast-paced survival pic, the movie itself was actually more of a moody survival drama, with brief
spurts of action and thriller aspects now and then. It worked in it’s favor, in my opinion.
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