Finally. We finally saw something that was fun fun fun this week! OK, to recap, Iron Lady blew me away for Meryl Streep's acting, but the movie was so-so. Hugo was great, but I wasn't jumping out of my seat. My Week With Marilyn was mediocre at best. Albert Nobbs SUCKED!!
So we went to see the movie with the wolves. And Liam Neeson. Liam has been on the payroll path lately, which I understand. It's good to make money, and lame action / adventure fills the bill. I imagine it's kind of easy too, unless the physicality of the role is demanding. So you get A-Team. Taken. Crap like that.
But The Grey is fun!. It is by the same director as A-Team, Joe Carnahan, but you would never guess it. There is a team of guys in the Arctic / Alaska, presumably at an oil rig, and they're heading home for vacation? The winter? Who cares. The plane goes down in the frozen wasteland tundra. Good plane crash scene. And the cold looks very real. These guys are frozen - hair and beards and fingers - all frozen. The sound is good, too, with lots of wind. And then, of course, howling and growling starts.
See, there is this huge pack of wolves, and it's winter and they're pissed and probably hungry. The guys that survived the crash look yummy and are a good way to vent anger as well. So the wolf pack starts picking them off, just like on the Discovery channel.
Liam's character is some kind of violent sniper type. His job at the drill site was to watch out for wolves and other predators and shoot them before they get the employees. So he understands the wolves, and definitely understands that the survivors are outmatched, under-supplied and ill-equipped to make it out alive. But they have to try. The acting is great. The effects - the wolves and the snow and the wind - are superb. I jumped a couple of times, which I love. I love scary animal movies. Especially when they're good.
Go see this one.
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