The Grey

This past weekend, I watched "The Grey," with Liam Neeson. In this movie, Liam Neeson portrays a hired hunter you could say for a corporation drilling for oil in Alaska. As he was on his way back home, his plan malfunctioned and crashed in the middle of nowhere in the Alaskan wilderness. Neeson wakes up and takes charge of the situation by saving all the other crash victims. That night, they are visited by timber wolves, common in Alaska, who are scrounging for food among the crash site. They attack Neeson, and are soon scared off by the survivors. But the wolves come back for more, and after killing a survivor, the others decide to make a run for it. The party of survivors are trekking towards the wood line in the distance, all the while being stalked by the wolves. During this trek, the slower and weaker people are picked off one by one. As the party nears the woods, the wolves ambush them on either side. The survivors make a break for the woods, and once inside the sheltering trunks of the trees, are able to make a fire to keep the wolves at bay. With 5 survivors left, the wolves begin testing them and finding the weaker of them. The alpha male visits them in the middle of the night, to whom Neeson stands his ground against. As night turns into day, the survivors continue their walking and are faced with a number of challenges, not counting the wolves close behind them. Another member dies when he falls off a cliff. One more passes away from sickness, and yet another just gives up entirely. Following a river that has signs of recent logging, the last two survivors, Neeson and David, they are ambushed again and are forced into the river. While being carried away downstream by the current, David gets caught underneath a rock and drowns despite Neeson's futile efforts to safe him. The movie ends when Neeson if confronted at last by the alpha male of the pack, and the movie cuts off as the fight begins. Overall, this was a very good movie. I enjoyed it well enough, although I am not one to watch "scary movies." It is a good watch, and it is also Mr. Nelson approved.