Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Joss38 Enjoyable, especially if your from NZ & get this remarkable vistas shoved down your throat repeatedly. So refreshing to see an original movie the way it's meant to be. Bravo inferno.

TheLittleSongbird Judging from reading the reviews, 'The Grey' is a very polarising film. Understandably. As has been said in other films, some people liked or loved it, others disliked or hated it. My main reason for seeing 'The Grey' was Liam Neeson, an actor who is never less than watchable and has been known to be very good regardless of what the rest of the film is like. Didn't outright hate 'The Grey', there are a few (emphasis on few) things done right and there are far worse films, naming them and summing them up would fill a whole book series or several of them. It isn't even the worst film with Neeson, that dishonour out of the ones personally seen is 'Taken 3'. Having said that, very much disliked it on the most part. Contrary to what has been written in many of the negative reviews, there is much more wrong to the film than being factually inaccurate even though there was illogic and unintentional ridiculousness as a result. Thank goodness for Neeson, by far the best thing about 'The Grey'. He had a lot on his shoulders to carry the film, being the lead and being crucial to stopping the film from being worse than it could have been. He is more than up to the task and gives a magnetic gravitas that was not present in the acting of the rest of the cast.Neeson apart, there are a couple of other redeeming qualities. The landscape is both bleakly atmospheric and strikingly beautiful, with moments of photography that matches that quality. Then there are the scene-stealing wolves, while they are genuinely menacing and like Neeson deserved a much better film they are also characters that one roots for far more than any of the human characters. Other than those redeeming qualities the rest of 'The Grey' doesn't work. The photography, as said, has moments, but mostly it's very slipshod and murky. The editing is choppy and not always coherent, especially in the action, while one does not expect to see effects this low-budget and at least 10 years out of date. Music is largely unmemorable and the direction is workmanlike at best and more often than not struggles badly to reach even that. With the sole exception of Neeson, the acting is very indifferent though in fairness a lot of them have little to work with with such a bland, bare bones script and emotionally un-investable characters.Biggest problems are the pacing and the story. The pace is pedestrian and the constant lack of suspense, tension and excitement severely hurts it. The story's action is under-utilised and when there is any it's poorly edited, ridiculous and dully choreographed. The psychological elements were an intriguing idea, executed in a crying out for more meat on the bones way, further disadvantaged by that none of the characters are interesting. Suspense and tension is next to nil, while the film is rife with ridiculousness and parts that are illogical. The cliff scene is an embarrassment. Overall, the colour grey has rarely been this bland. 3/10 Bethany Cox

paid in full The main character (played by Liam Neeson) is great at leading a group of survivors through dangerous situations.Without spoiling the movie, we can say that the story is engaging.

officialvelocyus Explicit language has been used. Reader discretion is advised. !Spoiler alert! Summary of the movie:"Hey we just crashed in the middle of nowhere, but this huge metal plane with huge metal parts that could be used to make a barricade and keep us safe in, doesn't sound like a very good idea so let's leave and head to the woods where a huge pack of bloodthirsty wolves is waiting for us, but somehow we'll be safer there.Also don't even bother getting some sharp metal parts of the plane as the ones we used to beat the wolves with in order to save our professional wolf hunter who magically survived after being mauled by two huge wolves. ZERO further need for weapons!We managed to kill a wolf because 12 Gauge shells exploding in open air at about 1 feet from our face, miraculously only kill what's in front of us, and we're good to go.Now we suddenly have a huge fire and we cook him and have a laugh, giving a total of zero damns about our friend who got mauled to death before our eyes a few minutes ago. All of us look in one direction during our happy episode in the forest, and the top predators hunting us in huge numbers don't attack us from behind.Next, we find a way to safely jump off a cliff over 400 meters tall, but when we reach down, the wolves are already waiting for us. They probably discovered a way of telleportation! A guy pretty much breaks his knee but is still able to walk through snow and keep up with two healthy guys for several miles, however he gets bored because he's a drunk loser, so he decides to give up by sitting ON A HUGE LOG NEAR A DAMN RIVER. We don't even consider going downriver on the log.All three of us are being chased by the same wolves, but we decide to stay and have a little fun talk, shake hands, and everything. Finally we get ourselves chased by two wolves, while we're slowly moving through huge snow, but somehow we can outrun them, until we fall in freezing water where one of us drowns and the last one gets back to land, giving a total of ZERO damns about being wet in below freezing temperatures.After magically drying off, he has a small existential crisis, but he shortly decides to keep moving until it reaches a wolf den.(IN WINTER WHEN WOLVES MIGRATE TO FIND FOOD) However despite being occupied with wolf cubs, the den it's unprotected, and our wolf hunter has plenty of time to go through a ton of memories until the wolves show up. The last survivor doesn't get mauled to death instantly by the pack, because the leader of the pack wants to show off in a 1v1, this of course after allowing our hero to make some glass knuckles."