By: Lawrence Foster
Rating: 9 out of 10
The battle between man and nature is one as old as time.
While the age-old-struggle works well in literature, the translation to the big screen has been rough.
That’s not to say that there haven’t been movies that feature man vs. nature that aren’t enjoyable (“Cast Away” for instance), but what is lacking in those films is a sense of hopelessness. Far too often, even though the deck is stacked against the people on screen, there is never a feeling of “They have no chance.”
That is not the case in “The Grey,” which pits a group of plane crash survivors against harsh winter elements and a pack of territorial wolves. From the moment the plane crash sequence begins, until the last scene, “The Grey” keeps its audience on the edge of its seat because they know the odds of survival are slim at best.
