The Grey

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The Grey

R

2012

1h 57m

Adventure

Drama

Action

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Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. A brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward toward civilization and safety, Ottway and his companions must battle mortal injuries, the icy elements, and a pack of hungry wolves.

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Critics Consensus

The Grey is an exciting tale of survival, populated with fleshed-out characters and a surprising philosophical agenda.

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Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

02/06/2024

Joe Carnahan has crafted a bone-chilling and relentless journey into the void.

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Wael Khairy

RogerEbert.com

11/06/2023

"The Grey" explores man's most frightening questions...if there's an afterlife or if "dead is dead"...our fear of heights, flights, drowning or dying alone.

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Laura Kern

Film Comment Magazine

06/20/2013

In the case of The Grey, less would have decidedly been more.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

10/14/2024

4/5

Liam Neeson, in his 50s, convincingly, and even poetically, takes himself to another place when playing these survival and revenge roles at his age.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

02/23/2023

3.5/4

An unforgivingly brutal, brilliantly acted, beautifully shot motion picture.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

03/29/2021

3.5/5

All this talk could have been dull, but Carnahan keeps it interesting via extensive use of intimate, close-up, almost claustrophobic shots.

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Nick R

@Nrichards5 6d

Visual, spiritual, moody. This film layers the exact emptiness and cold of an unforgiving Alaskan frontier. Liam and cast perfectly articulate a band of loners on the end of the world that cling to every breath of life despite the forgotten souls they all portray. This is an absolute masterpiece for those that love a darker mood and a bit a realism to a survival story.

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Ray C

Jan 22

I’ve never loved survival thrillers, but I still enjoyed The Grey quite a bit. As a thriller, it’s painfully bleak and gritty, but it’s much more of a horror movie than I was expecting. There are some genuinely well-done jump scares and one extremely uncomfortable body-horror–type scene. The movie also has a great cast. Liam Neeson delivers one of his best dramatic performances, and I really liked a lot of the supporting actors. There’s some solid character work here as well. I know some people weren’t fans of the ending, but I enjoyed it. Obviously, it’s hard to love an ending like this, but I think it fits the movie. The pacing kind of crawls in the second half, but I still found it enjoyable. Fans of this type of movie will definitely like it more than I did, but I’d still recommend it.

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Cfunk D

@Cfunk2085 Dec 11

The so called wilderness and wolf expert makes every bad choice. Leaving the plane crash was the dumbest thing ever. Forced movie were a bossy moron makes dudes gather wallets in the snow and head out into open tundra during windy conditions with wolves in the area.

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Stephen O.

@steveorates Dec 6

Such an amazing movie. Liam neeson kills his role and perfectly conveys a man so beaten up by life that his heart is covered in calluses, but he still has a heart that cares. I love how deep this movie goes. I loved it as a kid, but I had no idea the meaning it has until I watched it again now as I an becoming a man.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Dec 4

Success in 01 hour, 57 minutes, and 15 seconds!!!!!!!!! Ages 17 and older!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worldwide gross is $79,781,695.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Rob A

Nov 30

A plane crash in the middle of nowhere Alaska leaves only 5 survivors, all of them arctic oil drillers. Fortunately one of the men, Liam Neeson, has a military background giving them a fighting chance of walking out of the wilderness alive. However they're being stalked by a pack of gigantic grey wolves. This has somewhat been done before (Alive, 1993) but so what. Grey was a riviting thrill ride of a watch for thriller/horror fans.

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Synopsis

Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. A brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward toward civilization and safety, Ottway and his companions must battle mortal injuries, the icy elements, and a pack of hungry wolves.

Director: Joe Carnahan
Producer: Jules Daly, Joe Carnahan, Ridley Scott, Mickey Liddell
Screenwriter: Joe Carnahan, Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Distributor: Entertainment Film Distributors Ltd.
Production Co: Scott Free Productions, LD Entertainment, Chambara Pictures
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Bloody Images|Violence/Disturbing Images)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 27, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 4, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $51.5M
Runtime: 1h 57m

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