The Grey Was Not Just A Liam Neeson Survival Movie
Considering that The Grey was a January release, and hit theatres during the Liam Neeson renaissance, where the actor was starting to be taken serious as a bonafide ass-kicker, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was just another mindless action flick with a Neeson defending his friends from a pack of vicious wolves.
Admittedly, in some sense, that’s kind of what The Grey is, and it is definitely what the trailer marketed it as. But then you peel back the layers and you start to realize that beneath the harsh, winter exterior lies a surprisingly deep existential drama with well developed characters that asked its audience a bevy of intriguing philosophical questions.
Taken this is not. Far from it. The Grey is perhaps one of Neeson’s best films in recent memory, and that’s thanks to a thoughtful and complex screenplay and director Joe Carnahan’s bold vision for what could have been just another January dud.