Liam Neeson’s intensity drives The Grey [MOVIE REVIEW]
Liam Neeson stars in the action thriller, The Grey, opening Friday. Photo by Kimberly French “The Grey” stars Liam Neeson as Ottaway, a cast-out like so many others living and working in an oil field somewhere in the outer reaches at the end of the world in Alaska. Ottaway has nowhere to go, so it’s fitting he ended up with so many others who’ve used up all their free passes. Leaving the field for any one of a number of reasons and for no reason in particular, he boards a plane filled with rowdy workers bound for Anchorage far to the south and to what substitutes for civilization. But something goes wrong and the plane drops from the sky into the wilderness in the middle of the freezing nowhere. Carnage everywhere, burning debris, shards of metal and only seven survivors. No one, Ottaway assures the others, will come looking for them and their survival is up to them, a survival that soon becomes even more unlikely when they are beset upon by wolves, big aggressive, territorial wolves. This is man against nature at its most primal; they must fight not just the elements but also the predators. Ottaway, whose job at the oil field was to protect the area from the voracious wolves, is…
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