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The Grey - review

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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.

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