This was one of my most awaited movies of 2012. Keep in mind that I read the script first and then watched the movie.
LOVED GREY. Fucking LOVED it.
Liam Neeson gives in a masterful performance. Amazing direction.
Just have one complain though : the theme of the movie changes halfway. It becomes a movie about faith, about deeper ideas, and it couldn't have chosen a worse time to preach these ideas (the third act). Thing is, a movie should pick up pace when it REACHES the third act, and this one loses it's pace as it nears act 3.
Also, learnt something really awesome about film making from this movie. When your characters are not fleshed out well, you should make them face an antagonist that is so inhuman that you'll feel for the characters. And boy, are these wolves inhuman as fuck. Brilliant direction by Carnahan (why he insists on making action movies totally escapes me) saves even the most underwritten parts of the screenplay.
And fuck, that plane crash sequence is to die for. I've never seen a better plane crash sequence/vehicular accident sequence in film EVER. Brilliantly directed.
Sound design is pretty impressive, too. I won't be surprised if this gets an Oscar nod for that and Neeson's performance.
And there is no wolf-punching. I know the trailers showed wolf-punching, but they were advertising a different movie. So be well aware that THERE IS NO WOLFPUNCHING IN THIS MOVIE.
I'd give it a 8/10. If not for the relatively mediocre third act it would have been a 9/10.
Do watch. But keep in mind that there is NO WOLFPUNCHING.
