Liam Neeson stars as John Ottway who can't stop obsessing about his dead wife. In fact, that's all he dreams about. He's a lonely, suicidal man with a job of hunting wolves to protect the oil workers, and they send him off in a plane with them. The plane crashes, with one of the most impressive plane crashes I've seen on a film, and Liam wakes up covered in snow, and looks for survivors. Soon they realized they are in wolf territory and they are being hunted with no help seeming to come find them. Suddenly it's survival of the fittest.
I'm a huge fan of Liam Neeson and he's still awesome here just like all his other movies. I also liked the characters around him, and I was pulling for them to survive. What I particularly like is how deep the film is, especially with the concept of death. It's handled very well, and it felt realistic like the scene where Liam was coaching someone who was about to die. I can almost feel the emotion in that scene.
The action in the movie is also good, and although there are some nice scenes of them talking and building character, you won't be bored. Well, the little girl behind me was bored, but whoever brought their young child in a movie like this needs to be thrown to the wolves.
I highly recommend The Grey, but be forewarned that it's not a feel good movie. The action is riveting (like the scene where they have to climb a rope on the mountain) but the movie feels more human than most. These aren't Hollywood tough guys and they come off like real people. The only thing that bogs this movie down is the fake CGI of the wolves. They should have used real ones. Were they afraid they would look like a smaller budget with real wolves? The movie Frozen did that. Other than that, it's a great movie! Definitely leagues better than any of the Twilight movies.