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The Grey
Directed by
Joe Carnahan
Produced by Ridley Scott, Mickey Liddell, Joe Carnahan, and Jules Daly
Screenplay by Joe Carnahan and Ian MacKenzie Jeffers Based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers
Produced by Ridley Scott, Mickey Liddell, Joe Carnahan, and Jules Daly
Screenplay by Joe Carnahan and Ian MacKenzie Jeffers Based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers
With:
Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, James Badge Dale, Ben Bray, and Anne Openshaw
Cinematography:
Masanobu Takayanagi
Editing: Roger Barton and Jason Hellmann
Music: Marc Streitenfeld
Editing: Roger Barton and Jason Hellmann
Music: Marc Streitenfeld
Runtime:
117 min
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 27 January 2012
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
There are good ideas in the survival film, The Grey, but their isn’t a very good film. Movies like this live and die by three things, the development of the characters, the staging of the action scenes and the writing of the dialogue scenes the happen between attacks. Any subtext or points about life, death, machismo, God or cinema are pointless without getting all three of the main textural elements right. This story about a bunch of unpleasant oil workers who survive a plane crash in Alaska comes up short on all three.