Very well executed

One of my all time favorites.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

This film takes you on a journey with pure men with the struggles they experience and the beauty that comes with it.It is not intended as a documentary of wolves. Bit rather the way men think and why we men are men.Chicks don't get this. Go watch a romcom.Survival and pure instinct this is what destilles from the broth.

Just a few comments about this Jack Londonesque movie. Beyond the surface this movie harpoons the great competitions of man versus man, man versus nature, man versus God and man versus himself. What the director was able to accomplish in this raw film is an inspiration. A man evolving from suicidal tendencies, a man who protected life but initially cares little of his own, revealed his true flesh of wanting to live. The ethereal remembrances provided a cloudy peek into his pain. The parallels of the pack of wolves and the pack of men within the indifferent universe. Oh my fellow watchers this visceral movie gives us hope, purpose and the untethered pang of raw survival. To rage against the cold, while the hungry wolves that lurk in our souls attempt to devour us. Those that rate this movie poorly lack the honed taste of organic storytelling. Shakespeare throughout this movie. Enter the Gray with fortitude and alacrity and your poem will write itself. Well done.

The movie is absolutely unrealistic nonsense. Instead of wolves they could just use zombies, at least it would be obvious they're not trying to make something even distantly resembling real situations. It has nothing to do with survival or realistic behavior of animals, it's pure fantasy, sadly not very good one. Hopefully nobody will think that this is how real wolves would behave.

Many of the public reviews here in IMDb have already stated how terrible this film really is, so it feels quite unnecessary and close to pointless to add another statement of the same kind. When someone claims this to be the best film they ever saw, it just tells me that it also must be the first. Still, according to expectations the Grey really falls through the scale. One point is that this is a very disappointing performance from Liam Neeson, and actor mainly associated with quality both in his acting and choice of projects. But the main point is that this has nothing at all to do with real wildlife or nature. This is such an unrealistic nonsense that people like the old wildlife novelist Jack London, the master of the genre, must be turning embarrassed in his grave, though his descriptions of humans meeting wolves and struggling with grand nature was rather romanticized. But that was a century ago, this is 2011, and one is allowed to expect much more. The wolves in the Grey are so non realistic, animated out of some cruel old fairy tale, that it's sickening and disturbing. What is the purpose - to please the fanatic action/fantasy audience? As for the rest of the plot, it's at best mediocre and lacks depth and dynamics. There seems to be only one goal, Liam Neeson's tough appearance is supposed to fight the conditions and win over them alone. It's just plain silly. I couldn't care less about the Chainsaw Award, giving the prize for best actor to Neeson. The award goes with it's name. A massacre.