This is Liam Neeson's winter badass movie. It seems like he has some sort of action movie coming out in the early part of the year every year. This time he takes on nature, and nature has no chance. All kidding aside, this does look pretty entertaining. Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News included it in his top ten of 2011, and the production company is planning a rerelease late in the year to drum up talk of Oscar contention for Best Picture and Best Actor. It's a lot of hype for a January movie, but we'll see.
The Director - Joe Carnahan - His last movie was The A-Team which was stupid fun, but a dime a dozen action movie. Smokin' Aces I felt was overrated, but Narc with Ray Liotta was a pretty good movie. Again, there is a lot of awards hype for this movie, so expectations are high.
The Writers - Joe Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers - Jeffers wrote the short story this movie is adapted from. This is Jeffers second writing credit. His first was Death Sentence that was directed by James Wan (Saw, Insidious). Carnahan has written mainly the features that he has directed.
Starring
Liam Neeson... Ottway
Dermot Mulroney... Talget
Dallas Roberts... Hendrick
Frank Grillo... Diaz
Nonso Anozie... Burke
Joe Anderson... Flannery
The cast really isn't important. This is Neeson's movie and how good it is will completely depend on how good his character is. Other than that, the rest of the cast is wolf fodder.
Early Reviews
Colin Covert - ***1/2 out of 4
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/138137413.html
Michael Phillips - *** out of 4
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-0124-the-grey-20120126,0,2419038.column
Roger Ebert - ***1/2 out of 4
http://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120125/REVIEWS/120129984/-1/RSS
Lisa Schwarzbaum - C+
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20556661,00.html
May the Force be with you,
CHUD
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