The Grey (2012)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 187
Fresh: 148 | Rotten: 39
The Grey is an exciting tale of survival, populated with fleshed-out characters and a surprising philosophical agenda.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 13
The Grey is an exciting tale of survival, populated with fleshed-out characters and a surprising philosophical agenda.
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In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements - and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt - before their time runs out. -- (C) Open Road Films
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Cast
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Liam Neeson
Ottway -
Frank Grillo
Diaz, John Diaz -
Dermot Mulroney
Talget -
Dallas Roberts
Hendrick, Henrick -
Joe Anderson
Flannery -
Nonso Anozie
Burke -
Ben Bray
Hernandez -
James Badge Dale
Hernandez, Lewenden -
Anne Openshaw
Ottway's Wife -
Peter Girges Dureyshevar
Company Clerk -
Jonathan James Bitonti
Ottway (5 years old) -
James Bitonti
Ottway's Father -
Ella Kosor
Talget's Little Girl -
Jacob Blair
Cimoski -
Lani Gelera
Flight Attendant -
Larissa Stadnichuk
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All Critics (188) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (151) | Rotten (39) | DVD (6)
The Grey remains a genuinely gripping survival story and a refreshing change from stale urban action flicks.
Top CriticThe Grey is about raging against the dying of the light but also about accepting it with peace once the fight has been lost.
Three-fifths of a solid film!
The Grey, despite moments of sublimity, is as predictable as a funeral. When Ottway angrily calls out to God, the nonanswer is sadly redundant.
Somewhere along the line, apparently, it was decided that having men fight for their lives is not enough to hang a movie on. It has to be a movie about Big Ideas.
Hold on tight. It's a true call of the wild.
It's 'Man vs Wild Wolf' in this suspenseful Alaskan survival film.
The Grey is an exciting, if uneven, paean to the macho ideal.
Both visceral and thoughtful.
Carnahan's gripping yet grim thriller is either a masterpiece of reflective cinema, or a bleak, inexcusably nihilistic bid to transcend movie tropes by alienating the audience.
There hasn't been a more intense movie than The Grey this year.
A noteworthy performance from Liam Neeson keeps the character moments engaging and the man vs. nature scenarios offer a number of memorable sequences.
There are points where you can feel the filmmakers really trying to get their point across, only to have it lost again in a film that gets its story stuck in a rut.
The Grey is a cool action film with a heart and soul, which is refreshing to see in a January release.
A bold, uncompromising film that can't be dismissed as mere entertainment, no matter how thrilling it is.
One of the most complex action thrillers of the last ten years...
May very well be the best thrill ride of the year even after August. Don't miss it.
Some amazing wolf attacks!
A survival thriller with teeth.
The Grey is a powerful drama, a chilling tale of horror, and an uplifting, emotionally raw look at the nature of man and spiritually.
A soothing lullaby for alpha-male viewers and survival buffs, Joe Carnahan's The Grey arrives in a tip-top Blu-ray from Universal-a form that's likely to extend its life indefinitely, as a manly man, scotch-sipping midnight movie.
I can't say I was sorry it was over. But it also has the stark purity of an icicle; it earns my respect if not my love.
I went into the fray and rode this intense, emotional ride with the characters. The Grey is hypnotic, terrifying, affective, poetic, and the best film that I've seen this year.
This movie starts off with the main character putting a gun to his head, having decided his life has no meaning or purpose. After that, the story starts getting depressing.
A gripping, survivalist drama with more humanity than expected.
Audience Reviews for The Grey
(+) Liam Neelson always teach me in survival situation
(-) If you curious about the trailer that he fight the wolf one on one, that's the ending.
Super Reviewer
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- Flannery: I gotta a book! It's called 'We're all fucked'! It's a best seller.
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- Ottway: I'm gonna start beating the shit out of you in the next five seconds, and you're gonna swallow a lot of blood for a fucking billfold!
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- Ottway: A job at the end of the world. A salary killer for a big petroleum company. I don't know why I did half the things I've done, but I know this is where I belong. Surrounded by ex-cons, fugitives, drifters, assholes. Men unfit for mankind.
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- Ottway: Those things from your life - whatever they might be - make you want the next minute more than the last. They make you fight for it.
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- Ottway: Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.
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- Diaz: This is fuck city, population five and dwindling.
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Foreign Titles
- The Grey - Unter Wölfen (DE)
- The Gray (UK)
Joe Carnahan is a very underrated director who deserves much more praise and should be approached more of an auteur type director than just a plain Hollywood director. While many consider him as nothing more than a hired hand, i find his work stylistically unbelieavably good looking and some themes in his films are often extremely dark and melancholic. In past ten years he has also created a style completely of his own as a filmmaker.
The Grey is nothing short of brilliant when it comes to mixing content with visual look. Here is a deeply touching work of art with bursts of action and even occasional horror in the form of leathal wolves. I can just imagine that how many other directors would have easily turned this film into non-stop actioner with zero depth but Carnahan is much more interested in his characters than assembling any set-pieces. There are two or three outstanding moments of suspense but this film is not about them. This film is about facing the death. It is a story about men who has to accept their fate and learn to give up when the battle has lost.
I cannot recall better performance from Liam Neeson than his John Ottway in this film. His character is a man who has lost love from his life and his will to live too. He is a man who is facing his final battle with nature and himself. Neeson is nothing short of brilliant here. There are also many smaller parts here which are important as well. Actors like Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo and Dallas Roberts all give small but important performances which bring welcome depth to film's story.
Technical feats are all state of art here. Especially the phenomenally goodlooking cinematography by Masanobu Takayanagi is something to behold. Composer Marc Streitenfeld's score is also very effective and mixes tender themes into a icy moments of horror. Wolves themselves are kinda harbinger of death and Carnahan wisely show us as little as possible these leathal beasts. The Grey is also reminder of dangers of nature that would have been enough to make this riveting enough to watch.
As a pure philosophical and psychological survival drama this film is already quite a ride but Carnahan's approach and firm hand makes this something unfrogettable. The Grey is director Joe Carnahan's best film to date and thrilling film to watch. There hasn't been a film like this for a long time. This is possibly the best survival themed film ever made.