Wolves, like most animals, know a lot of things that humans don?t. When bad white men move onto their turf to do bad white-man stuff ? like drilling for oil ? they instinctively know something?s amiss in the balance of nature, and damned if they?re going to just sit back in their dens and fuhgeddaboutit. In The Grey, wolves unleash their fury at mankind in a bloody yet tasteful flurry of stamping paws and gnashing teeth; mankind fights back as best he can, which in this particular case, is not very well.
What?s not surprising about the picture, considering it was directed by the guy behind movies like Smokin? Aces and The A-Team, Joe Carnahan, is how absurdly macho some of the dialogue is. (My favorite line, uttered by a character after he?s witnessed one too many wolf-inflicted deaths: ?This is fuck city, population 5 and dwindling.?) What is surprising is how poetic the movie is, partly thanks to its high-lonesome sound design and the desolate beauty of its visuals, but mostly because of its star, Liam Neeson. He knows what the wolves know, only he?s not telling.
Neeson plays Ottway, a sharpshooter stationed at an Alaskan oil refinery, where hard men work even harder shifts, toiling for five weeks straight before being freed for two weeks of vacation. It?s Ottway?s job to pick off the bears and other assorted critters who might prey on the men as they work. He?s good with a gun for sure, but he also takes the killing part of his job seriously: In the movie?s early moments, he approaches a wolf he?s just shot -- it lies in the snow, bloodied but hardly drained of its dignity -- and places his hand on the animal?s flank as it draws its last breath.…
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