MMA Movie Review: The Grey

I just saw The Grey and confess to being overwhelmed.  This is one tough little movie about survivors of a plane crash who share one common goal: survival in the Alaska wilderness in the dead of winter.

They are forced to fight the elements, including wolves and weather.  This is not a Jaws type film that substitutes wolves for sharks.  There are no giant, relentless eating machines that behave differently from nature’s wolves.  They are just nature’s wolves who resent strangers in the middle of their territory.

It is important, however, to remember the movie goes beyond that.  It’s a tightly packed exciting, jump out of your seat tale, but it’s also “a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it.  The film is “as blunt and effective—and also, at times, as lyrical—as a tale by Jack London or Ernest Hemingway.” Says AO Scott of the New York Times.

The Grey is “in the best sense, like a men’s adventure magazine splashed on the big screen,” notes Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News. “With a bellyful of lite Hemingway and a heavy soul that never drags it down, director Joe Carnahan’s great adventure follows Liam Neeson’s lead and stays steely to the end.”

It’s important not to make this a “wolf hunting man” movie.  It is far, far more and you will leave the theater reeling from your participation in the 1 hour and 57 minute journey to the heart of Alaska, and the hearts and minds of tough but terrified men.

I highly recommend The Grey and award it five out of five stars.  Under no circumstances let anyone tell you how it ends.

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