Variety
The picture's dialogue-heavy stretches and ambiguous finale could leave ticketbuyers impatient for less chatter and more chomping.
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The Grey
Liam Neeson leads an oil-rig crew who are left for dead after a plane crash strands them in the wolf-infested Alaskan wilderness. From the director of The A-Team.
Ottway (Neeson) kills wolves for a living, keeping them away from the stationed oil well. After the crash, the lone huntman only has a few days to escort the roughneck survivors out of the icy elements and away from the pack of rogue wolves.
2012Rating: R16, contains offensive language & content that may disturb116 minsUSA
ActionDrama
- Director:
- Joe Carnahan ('The A-Team', 'Smokin' Aces', 'Narc')
- Writer:
- Joe CarnahanIan Mackenzie Jeffers
- Cast:
- Liam NeesonDermot MulroneyJames Badge DaleFrank GrilloJoe AndersonNonso Anozie
The Grey / Reviews
Total Film
Supremely led by Liam Neeson, The Grey may be a wilderness tale, pure and simple, but it’s as compelling as they come.
Full reviewTime Magazine
True to its grim prospectus, The Grey dwells in haunted machismo to the very end.
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The New York Times
It's a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it.
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Roger Ebert
Sit through the entire credits. There's one more shot still to come. Not that you wouldn't be content without it.
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New York Daily News
The gristle inside this movie is one of the things that save it from being simply a series of challenges.
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Entertainment Weekly
As Neeson No-Brainers go, this one, directed as if on a diet of testosterone injections and shots of absinthe by Neeson's A-Team helmer, Joe Carnahan, is a reasonably entertaining, loopy blend of brawny bonding and Samuel Beckett-approved rumination.
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Empire Magazine
Carnahan’s best work since Narc, with a powerhouse performance by Neeson and real emotional heft. So, as much Gut Puncher as Wolf Puncher.
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Box Office Magazine
This is admirably ambitious, but Carnahan's not nearly good enough a writer or director to pull it off: the results are portentous, muddled and not nearly as entertaining as Neeson's usual face-punching antics.
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A.V. Club
Neeson brings gravitas to the table, acting as a legitimizing counterweight to the overwrought dialogue and flesh-tearing lupine hysteria. But in a scenario this persistently ludicrous, he can only do so much.
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