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Transcends from a standard action/survival film with a brilliant final coda. Anyone else making a film about man trying to overcome impossible odds take note.
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There are times when The Grey is very formulaic and unoriginal and times when it breaks away and surprises, just a shame that overall I found it as bleak and empty as the snowy wastes they crashed in.
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Fuck faith! Earn it!
Dieser Satz alleine, den Ottway Richtung Himmel brüllt, bringt dem Film einen Stern ein!Düsterer Streifen. Aber sehr gut! Allerdings mit ein paar Tiefpunkten. Konnte Liam seine Rolle irgendwie nie richtig abkaufen. Irgendwie war er nicht menschlich. Keine Ahnung.. ganz komisch fand ich das. Bin aber auch kein großer Fan von ihm, vielleicht lags daran.das Ende an sich war ganz gut, wobei da auch nochmal gut gezeigt wird warum ich den Charakter von Ottway nicht so…
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The film is very well crafted, with some great performances....but with little to say. 'The Grey' is a perfect example of existentialism in film, but I believe that there's a difference in simply showing off a view point (with no care to debate its stance) and a film that dialogues about its own philosophies. I put 'The Grey' in the former camp. Well crafted, but I wish it was willing to dialogue.
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I've always liked this sort of survival stories, and they do a very good job at it here, the characters are very well defined and they actually grow and develop as the story goes. Really the best parts are just the conversations between them as the inevitable approaches, in a way the wolves are nothing more than death creeping up and them having to come to terms with it before it gets there.
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68/100
Ciertas partes están filmadas (bueno, grabadas: es digital) y cortadas con las patas. Carnahan logra los mejores momentos de la película en los momentos silenciosos, en conversaciones aparentemente banales, en revelaciones intimistas.El mejor plano: Talget subido a la cuerda con un abismo de green screen al fondo.
Escena más desgarradora: Cuando Hendrick y Ottway abandonan a Díaz en la ribera del río, a petición suya.
Efecto más chafa: el supuesto lobo macho alfa, que se ve peor que el Gmork de La historia sin fin.
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Despite taking itself a little too seriously this is mostly good fun watching Liam Neeson and the gang get slowly picked off by a pack of territorial wolves.
Liam Neeson is watchable as always, the Alaskan wilderness makes for some nice scenery and although it would probably benefit by being a bit shorter, overall this was passable entertainment that didn't require too much thinking on a sleepless night.
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Geen idee of u het gemerkt heeft, maar de voorbije jaren lijkt er slechts één naam bovenaan de lijst te prijken van half geriatrische actiehelden: Liam Neeson. Sinds hij een aantal baddies op niet geheel amicale wijze mores mocht leren in het entertainende ‘Taken’ mocht hij grosso modo hetzelfde doen in het entertainende niemendalletje ‘Unknown’ en de blockbuster ‘The A-Team’. Ook in ‘The grey’ mag Neeson het achterste van zijn tandvlees laten zien wanneer hij het opneemt tegen de natuur,…
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"Once more into the fray."
I saw this movie without knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised by it.
First of all, the plane crash sequence in this movie is among the best I‘ve ever seen, truly terrifying. What follows thereafter is so much more than just a survival story of a group of guys trapped in the icy wilderness in Alaska. As we gradually learn the backstory of the characters, especially Liam Neeson‘s character, the movie slowly gets…
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Considering that this film is about a group of men struggling desperately to survive in the snowy wilderness surrounded by flesh-hungry wolves, there is a surprisingly little amount of macho bullshit on show. My expectations were low on this one, even though I have a soft spot for Liam Neeson, and the last thing I was expecting was to be holding back tears by the time the credits rolled.
The story is simple, which makes its lasting effect even more…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.