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The Grey – Review


In Theaters This Weekend: The Grey, Man on a Ledge, One for the Money, Declaration of War, Albert Nobbs,The Wicker Tree. The Grey:Mallory A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete

Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's new deep-freeze thriller, that might do it. The best abstract about this movie is its shivery hypothermic vérité, a credit to the skill of cinematographer Masanobu Takanayagi, working under what must have been

Playing the survivor of an airplane crash in Alaska, actor Frank Grillo endured nasty Arctic winds and freezing cold temperatures shooting in the desolate country around Smithers, BC for the film The army. But in a phone interview from Toronto,

Judging by The Grey, director Joe Carnahan's new deep-freeze thriller, that might do it. The best thing about this movie is its shivery hypothermic vérité, a credit to the skill of cinematographer Masanobu Takanayagi, working under what must have been

The Grey is gruesome at times, but it's also involving emotionally, as the puny mortals reveal themselves to each another in the face of something as insurmountable as the frigid Alaskan outback.