The Grey - review - Film - Arts - Evening Standard
       

The Grey - review

Critic Rating
Reader Rating 0

Liam Neeson specialises in desperate and uncomfortable parts these days. In Joe Carnahan's film he gloomily surveys his fate as an oil-rig worker with a broken love life in Alaska before embarking for civilisation in a plane that goes down in the middle of nowhere.

Leading the few survivors, he decides to leave the wreck and walk towards salvation, only to be constantly attacked by a group of rampaging wolves. Now we know wolves don't often attack humans but this is a pack of crazies that will not desist, however many of them are picked off by the frozen humans.

Though the film is too long, it has exciting moments and a performance from Neeson that is enough to make anyone shiver. Added to that the plane crash is horrifying and the terrain frighteningly desolate. Carnahan, who produced and wrote the film as well as directing it, clearly knows his stuff.

Comments

Don't Miss
Oh Delilah: Introducing London's hottest pop singer

Oh Delilah

Introducing London's hottest pop singer
Cool Kate at Claridges

Classy Kate

Kate Moss dazzles at Claridges party
The best cameras and accessories on the market

Snap these up

The best cameras and accessories
Amy Childs bares all like Britney

Dare to bare

Amy Childs vajazzles like Britney
Sneak peek at new Thames cable car

Sneak peek

First look at the Thames cable car
The bottom line: the rise of BDSM in London

The bottom line

The rise of BDSM in London
The Scissor Sisters are back ... and sharper than ever

Scissor Sisters

Back and sharper than ever
The Dictator - review

The Dictator

Monstrous and monstrously funny
Revealed: The secret Twitter stars getting themselves into a web of mischief

Tweet T'who?

The secret stars of Twitter
First view from the top of the Orbit Tower on London Olympic site

Orbit Tower

First views from the top