The grey

• Any casual reader of Jack London will get a stab of recognition from the portrayal in the movie "The Grey" of battered survivors defending with flaming torches against snarling, snapping wolves. After all, the opening stanza of Mr.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• The Grey is looking like box office gold. The film, starring Liam Neeson, took in $6.5 million at the domestic box office Friday, and is on track to take $18.6 million for the weekend. While thats nowhere near the $25.
(TheWrap)
• A new action movie starring Liam Neeson features snarling villains hunting people in packs in snowy, desolate Alaska - a misleading portrayal of wolves according to wolf experts.
(Pioneer Press)
• In a two-week span, two movies about Alaska will make their big-screen, big-budget debuts. The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, comes out nationwide Friday and tells the story of oil workers who become stranded when their plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness.
(Alaska Dispatch)
• Its a cramped, ugly, bare-bones flight, packed full of oil-rig workers. Then it hits a blizzard. Then it crashes in the middle of an Alaskan wasteland even Todd Palin would steer clear of.
(nola.com)
• The Grey strives to be something different, turning what could have been a piece of mid-January claptrap into a far more satisfying experience. There is no yarn older than that of man vs. nature. It's part of our ancestral make-up and homo sapien heritage.
(Popmatters.com)
• The Grey is one of the most intense movies to come along in a while. Writer/director Joe Carnahans movie is half survival tale, half horror film and thoroughly riveting.
(Gainesville Times)
• The Grey is poised to take the top spot at the weekend box office (Jan.27-29) and director Joe Carnahan is already working on his next project. Hell be writing and directing a remake of the 1974 vigilante film Death Wish.
(Zap2it.com)
• Liam Neeson took on a pack of wolves and bloodied himself in leading The Grey to an opening day victory at the North American box office on Friday.
(TheHDRoom)