Director Joe Carnahan
Like so many of the films around award season The Grey is built around one man and one performance, in this case Liam Neeson (Star Wars Episode 1: The Phanton Menace, Taken) who continues the latest stage of his career as an ageing action star and reteams with A-Team director Joe Carnahan. Unfortunatly that led to me constantly comparing the Grey to the pairs last film, one of my favorite action films. In many ways thats an unfair comparrison to make but thats how my head works sorry. The main failure of The Grey is that there is no likable characters in the film, several days later no characters come to my mind as memorable other than Neesons and i can't even remember his name. This means that its very difficult to fell shock or horror when most the charcters are killed off. Of course this is in Neeson favor as everything about the film is about him, its not his greatest performance but its still a pretty good one. The thing about the film is its almost impossible to place into a genre, although the ending of the film is refresing if it is actually an action film.4 out of 10
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