The Grey
Synopsis:
A simple story about Ottway (Liam Neeson) who is a hunter, preventing wolves from attacking oil-diggers in the Antarctic. On the way back home, he and other oil-diggers boarded a plane and crashes in a cold-icy mountain. The movie didn't show a full-blown airplane or how the airplane suddenly caught fire and crashes. Then, it shows that only Ottway and few survivors escape death in the fatal crash and with his experience as a hunter, he began leading the bunch to survival especially against a pack of vicious wolves who are picking on their group one-by-one. He began to bond some friendship along the way and showcase of how they deal with death on the course of their escape. However, when one-by-one, the survivors are killed due to the wolves, accident and illness, and remain Ottway, he started to began questioning his faith. In the end, we learn that Ottway wishes to commit suicide in the beginning before the crashes due to his wife's passing due to illness. However, he slowly regain back his composure to finally choose to fight his own battle of survival by going against the alpha wolves in the end of the movie.
Review:
There was quite a hype on this movie a few months back especially when it went up top in the charts for a brief moment. So, i was kinda quite excited especially seeing Liam Neeson giving a powerful performance in Taken and other action-packed movies lately. The movie was at first hard to follow simply because there is no mentioning of what is character, Ottway is doing and mumbling about. Then, we were shown bits and pieces of Ottway and his wife embracing before the crashes but wasn't given a clue what it was. The story started to picked up during the plan trip and after the plane crash. The plane crash incident as stated above, was not shown in a complete manner but bits and pieces. However, the scenes was quite intense and surreal surrounding during the crash was very real. After that, i would say that the whole thing started to go downhill although there are a lot of actions going on like the wolves attack, the bonding, the journey and etc. However, i didn't feel very convince with the performance of it especially Liam Neeson. He still shows his coolness in talking and etc. much like when he is in Taken but i felt that it wasn't natural and especially not in the cold icy condition. I felt that he needs to show more in-depth emotion, his struggling especially in cold weather but i don't sense any of the bunch feeling cold, exhausted and etc. Heck! there wasn't even a trembling hand and no one looks hungry too even after days there. It wasn't as believable as i would hope for. Now lest move on to the wolves attack in the movie which was suppose to be the highlights of the movie. The attack was fast, vicious and difficult to be seen too especially the first attack. It was dark, strong wind and snowy and it was too fast that even though i didn't blink an eye, i still couldn't really see what was going on. The other attacks are also nothing to shout about although there are 1~2 scenes that are quite real. The finale of Ottway against the alpha wolf are not shown and ended abruptly and leave the audience guessing on who won the battle although after the credits, it shows the aftermath but i felt cheated. I was longing for a battle between man and wolves but i had to rely on my imagination to complete the movie, so it was a disappointment for me.
Verdict:
I give this a 3 out of 5. Just an average movie.
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