Absolutely brilliant

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Just a few comments about this Jack Londonesque movie. Beyond the surface this movie harpoons the great competitions of man versus man, man versus nature, man versus God and man versus himself. What the director was able to accomplish in this raw film is an inspiration. A man evolving from suicidal tendencies, a man who protected life but initially cares little of his own, revealed his true flesh of wanting to live. The ethereal remembrances provided a cloudy peek into his pain. The parallels of the pack of wolves and the pack of men within the indifferent universe. Oh my fellow watchers this visceral movie gives us hope, purpose and the untethered pang of raw survival. To rage against the cold, while the hungry wolves that lurk in our souls attempt to devour us. Those that rate this movie poorly lack the honed taste of organic storytelling. Shakespeare throughout this movie. Enter the Gray with fortitude and alacrity and your poem will write itself. Well done.

Many of the public reviews here in IMDb have already stated how terrible this film really is, so it feels quite unnecessary and close to pointless to add another statement of the same kind. When someone claims this to be the best film they ever saw, it just tells me that it also must be the first. Still, according to expectations the Grey really falls through the scale. One point is that this is a very disappointing performance from Liam Neeson, and actor mainly associated with quality both in his acting and choice of projects. But the main point is that this has nothing at all to do with real wildlife or nature. This is such an unrealistic nonsense that people like the old wildlife novelist Jack London, the master of the genre, must be turning embarrassed in his grave, though his descriptions of humans meeting wolves and struggling with grand nature was rather romanticized. But that was a century ago, this is 2011, and one is allowed to expect much more. The wolves in the Grey are so non realistic, animated out of some cruel old fairy tale, that it's sickening and disturbing. What is the purpose - to please the fanatic action/fantasy audience? As for the rest of the plot, it's at best mediocre and lacks depth and dynamics. There seems to be only one goal, Liam Neeson's tough appearance is supposed to fight the conditions and win over them alone. It's just plain silly. I couldn't care less about the Chainsaw Award, giving the prize for best actor to Neeson. The award goes with it's name. A massacre.

I've watched this movie 5 times and noticed something I missed in previous viewing. Now I think I've worked it out. P.s watch till the end of the credits for last scene. 10/10

This is not another mindless action thriller starring Liam Neeson. Nor is it a documentary about wolves, or a survival guide. It is a thought provoking, well paced, yet intense story about man's survival instincts. Set in the Alaskan north, Liam Neeson plays a wolf hunter who works for an oil company, by protecting the members of a drilling team. He and other members of the team are left stranded in the middle of nowhere after a plane crash. We follow these men as they struggle to survive in extreme conditions. The story is centered around Liam Neesons, brilliantly played character, who, troubled by his past, is suicidal before the crash, and then determined to survive afterwards. An original character with a dual nature, embodying life's struggles. The landscape is that of the vast and snowy plains of Alaska which is beautifully framed. The film balances light and dark shots/scenes very well throughout, reflecting the duality of the protagonist. The director manages to balance the vastness and the beauty of setting, with the intensity and fear of the people who's story we follow. I really enjoyed this film. I found it to be intense yet it remains human. Of course, it is not without its faults. Mainly the excessive amount of flashbacks to his past. As well as the poorly done CG wolves. There's also some problems with logic throughout the film. But if you look past its minor amount of flaws, you will find a great film, brilliantly directed and acted. I would definitely recommend this film despite the surprising amount of negative, and unjust reviews.