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Hey, it’s yet another oh-no-we-crashed-in-the-snow-how-shall-we-survive? adventure thriller, after yesterday’s Arctic, to accompany Netflix’s new Society of the Snow. In 2012’s The Grey, it’s a plane full of manly dudes flying back to civilization from a remote Alaskan oil station who crash in the middle of nowhere. And then a pack of wolves try to stop them trekking home.
It might sound a bit silly, especially when you learn that it stars Liam Neeson, but this isn’t an action movie, and it’s from the time before Neeson’s onscreen appearances descended into cliché. This is an intense, brutal drama about loneliness, desolation both physical and emotional, facing mortality, and genuine, positive manliness squaring off against bullshit macho posturing. It’s good stuff.
US: stream on Max (via Prime); rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
See The Grey at Letterboxd for more viewing options.
