The Grey

By: Makenzie White

Natural selection. Survival of the fittest. Man versus wild. No matter what someone calls it the idea of one kind of animal out doing the other has been around since the prehistoric ages.

Humans over time have grown and matured and many would consider humans to be at the top of the food chain; the Alpha of all creatures.

But when you are stranded in the middle of nowhere, with no supplies, in weather below freezing, those rules no longer apply.

In the new movie The Grey starring Liam Neeson. Neeson plays an older male character living in Alaska as a sniper who is trained to take out wolves.

Neeson is trained to kill wolves, not terrorists. But in his eyes the wolves are the terrorists.

Neeson takes on the role of a sad depressed man who is grieving over the loss of his wife. While it is not made clear until the end what happened to her, Neeson does a good job of taping into the audience’s pathos.

In the first fifteen minutes of the movie you will be on the edge of your seat as you witness the most realistic plane crash.

With what many of them considered to be a miracle, Neeson and a handful of other oil rig guys manage to survive the crash.

As they come to realization of what happened they make their first encounter with the antagonists of the movie; wolves.

Director Joe Carnahan takes the idea that nothing makes a movie scarier than realism into thought when putting the movie together.

Stranded out in the wild the men must face the ultimate question; what is greater man or wild?

Neeson and Carnahan will have you holding your breath and on the edge of your seat from the minute the lights dim until the credits role across the screen.

So if you are up for an action packed, suspense thriller, this might just be the perfect movie for you.

With a twist like Lord of the Flies, the men will be forced to fight for their life to see who the Alpha being is, and to see who will survive.

As Neeson recites in the movie, “Once more into the fray, into the last good fight I will ever know, live and die on this day, live and die on this day.