Review of The Grey (2012) by Buggy B — 28 Sep 2014

This was good, better than I was expecting and even kinda scary. Revolving around a group of rugged oil rig workers who fight for their lives in the Alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes miles from civilization and a pack of hungry wolves close in for the kill.

I'll admit this freaked me out with all the howling wolves in the dark, stalking and picking the men off one by one. Bleak landscape too, the wind, the cold the dark. The pack behavior of the wolves is well done and they haven't been all CGI'd into some huge monsters either. I could have done without all the man bickering and chest beating from the survivors after the plane crash, although I'd expected that dynamic. Lots of recognizable sub actors there. Liam Neeson does a decent job as the skilled outdoorsman leader dude, flexing his acting chops towards the end. This reminded me of that movie The Edge with Alex Baldwin & Anthony Hopkins getting chased by the bear, especially the death scene on the river, it became a different sort of movie then, introspective and less slasher. Cool ending. "Once more into the fray" Filmed in Smithers and Vancouver. 7/9/14.