A slightly good rating for a movie that has some real intense and interesting moments, but most of the time gets crushed under the weight of convenient action movie cliches.
Liam Neeson plays a sharpshooter hired by a big oil company to help protect the base and it's workers from wolves.
Neesons character is the sort of movie hero who has the stoic ability to do and know anything, a human jedi so to speak, although that's tempered by moments where he admits to fear and sometimes questions his own plan, we have no doubt that of all the people in this film, he's the one we'd want to be trapped with.
So anyway, if you've seen the trailer you know that he and a group of workers crash in the middle of nowhere and have to try and get back to civilization while being hunted by a pack of wolves. The wolf stuff is pretty awesome, but the group that Neeson is leading is fairly stock. Including the smart ass who wants to challenge everyone and wants to go another way. This shit bogs the film down.
The cat and mouse with the wolves is fun, but in the end it's just your normal characters in a film like this. There's a weird part at the end I couldn't quite figure out that included the group having to zip line off a mountain, but then there are still wolves and I'm left to wonder how the wolves got down there, but whatever.
The Grey is pretty much exactly that, shades of grey. Some good stuff underneath, but pretty much what you'd expect on the surface.
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