![]() For a final say, The Grey is a movie that wants to be deep and emotional, and for two scenes it manages to capture this perfectly, perhaps among some of the best emotional scenes in movies. I didn't blubber into man tears, but I did go into "blink your eyes really fast so you don't break down into man tears" mode. In fact, despite knowing this twist and having accepted it as a general part of the story, I was rather emotionally affected because of it. But this is actually one of the best scenes in the movie. Maybe I'm just really damn good at guessing plots. Finally, during the last scene we are presented with two twists that change the plot (sort-of) and one of these I feel was completely obvious. We don't get the time or space we need to breathe in the emotions, to truly connect to the characters. While there is a great emotional depth that is played at and used to pull on the audience heart strings, we don't ever get to feel it as much as we should because the movie is too busy trying to remind us that Alaskan wolves are bad asses. That is pretty much the story of this movie. The trailer starts by showing emotional moments and the crash and the set-up and all, but then it gets distracted by action in the second-half. ![]() In fact, I would say that the main detractors for this movie are rather prevalent even in the trailer. You can't take away from anyone here, though Liam Neeson's Ottway being the main character is the show stealer, all the other men maintain a presence even when it does feel like there are too many of them immediately after the crash. The actors do a fine job representing their characters for what they are. They also happen to put quite a bit of the wolf attacks in the middle of dramatic character scenes, somewhat robbing the emotion of the moment just so they can remind the audience that there are wolves in this movie. It feels as if you could run a stop watch and know whenever someone else is about to die. That being said, this movie has an extremely annoying motivation to slowly kill off these characters methodically. The characters aren't the most fleshed out, but the movie isn't lacking any of the cast that you'd expect to see. The survival expert stays the survival expert. Each character has their particular trait and they don't really fade from it. The characters themselves are somewhat lacking. Each character has traits that make him recognizable. When the movie slows down for these moments, you get a feel for the character's individual stories. While these men want to survive the wilderness and beat the wolves, they want to do it because they want to get back home to their families. By this I mean that the movie doesn't seem to neglect the fact that its characters are actual characters with other motives and emotions that clash with the story. It's what I like to call a movie with a conscience. The Gray is one of those movies that you don't really see all that often. They are the reprieve in a cold and snowy roller-coaster. These dreams present an emotional story to The Gray that adds more depth to its character than other aspects of the movie. Meanwhile, counter-point to all the surface level plot development, Ottway has dreams of being with his wife. The men soon realize they'll have to keep moving to survive, meanwhile the ever present threat of wolf attack surrounds them and clouds their hopes of surviving the menacing land. Shortly after their initial efforts to survive the plane crash, they come into contact with a group of timber wolves who attempt to thin the men out one by one. The men are all oil drill workers – rough neck manly men that live on booze and manual labor – with the seeming exception of Ottway (Liam Neeson) who is a sniper hired to protect the drill workers from attacks by the local wildlife. The Grey is a survival-action movie focusing on the story of a group of plane crash survivors in the middle of an Alaskan wasteland.
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