The Grey

2012

Liam Neeson stars in producer/director Joe Carnahan's tense adventure thriller about a group of tough-as-nails oil rig workers who must fight for their lives in the Alaskan wilderness after their airplane crashes miles from civilization. With supplies running short and hungry wolves closing in, the shaken survivors face a fate worse than death if they don't act fast. Durmot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, and Frank Grillo so-star.

Director: Joe Carnahan

Starring: Liam Neeson,Dermot Mulroney, James Badge Dale,Joe Anderson, Frank Grillo

 30 Reviews  2 Awards

Reviews

  • It's a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it.

    A.O. Scott - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • Sit through the entire credits. There's one more shot still to come. Not that you wouldn't be content without it.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • A terrifically exciting, deeply unsettling survivalist epic.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    19 January 2013

  • The setting and fatalistic musings of The Grey invite comparison to Sean Penn's stirring 2007 ad­ven­ture "Into the Wild"; in its more metaphysical moments, told in impressionistic flashbacks, it recalls last year's "The Tree of Life."

    Ann Hornaday - The Washington Post

    19 January 2013

  • Mr. Carnahan has till now been pigeonholed, and rightly, by comedy shoot-'em-ups like "Smokin' Aces" and "The A-Team." But here he is with The Grey - certainly an adventure film but one with a spiritual ingredient that is both surprising and fiercely resonant.

    John Anderson - The Wall Street Journal

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Best Horror/Thriller Film

    Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (2012)

     

  • Best Thriller

    Golden Trailer Awards (2012)

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