Friday, June 15, 2012

Quick & Painless Reviews: The Grey

First, IMDb's basic description of the plot:

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. 

... And I'll try to make the rest as quick & painless as possible.



I'm sure if I came across the short story it's based upon first, I might have thought it was kind of neat. Perhaps it left a lot up to mystery, so that the reader could find his own assumptions that would rationalize what was going on, or maybe it at least didn't throw in a bunch of false data about wolves that hunt humans suddenly.

This movie, however, didn't cut it in suspense or action. For some reason, I made myself endure a tale about a bunch of Alaskan hard bodies that are reduced to whimpering children once they're forced to face the hardships that they should be used to already while living up there (sans plane crash). Finally Liam Neeson gets ready to fight an alpha male, kitting himself out to become the biggest badass possible, but then the movie ends during its only potentially redeeming scene.

5/10 on the shame scale.

1 comment:

limo Dan said...

Your to nice I give it a 2 ever fucking time I'm look foreword to seeing a movie this all way go's down like this ..... "SHIT"