The Grey 4K 2011 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

An airplane crashed in Alaska, and the surviving passengers are trapped in a desolate snowy wilderness, where only a wolf pack brightens the landscape. People want to survive at any cost, and now they face a deadly battle.

Review 4K Movie

Joe Carnahan's new film, much to everyone's surprise, contains many metaphors, and many episodes of the film can be interpreted in any way you like. This is an unexpected metamorphosis, as Carnahan has never made anything serious before (the low-budget drama The Drug Courier doesn't count), and although the director has his own style, there is certainly no particular meaning in his works. In The Grey, the meaning is perfectly clear, but the director has not abandoned his favorite elements. Take, for example, the fact that he shoots purely masculine films, without sentimentality, everything is precise like a clockwork mechanism, and brutal. The story of a group of drilling station workers who suffered a plane crash in the snowy heart of Alaska is just such a story.

The main character is a loner. He was close to suicide because his wife died and now he has no one. The only thing that stops him from putting a bullet in his head is the howling in the distance. He makes a living by shooting wolves, being a wolf himself, in essence. But in an ironic twist of fate, the plane on which he is flying with the station workers crashes. And now the howl that distracted him is about to kill him and six other survivors on the plane.
The film begins as a proper art-house drama with a withdrawn protagonist. But after a plot twist, it starts playing on two fronts. Those who are expecting a thriller where wolves kill the characters one by one will not be disappointed. But there will also be dramatic elements, albeit in the form of inventive inserts of the characters' loved ones, who are always present in their memories. And this is probably one of the main ideas of the film, the main thing to remember. But in fact, at times, The Grey resembles Frank Marshall's film Alive, with the same snowy field and heroes. However, Alive did not feature the hero Nison, and the actor played his character incredibly well.

In some scenes of the film, it feels like you are watching the Discovery Channel, because Nison's character knows almost everything about how to survive when surrounded by wolves. This probably makes the film more relatable to the viewer, as the characters are ordinary people, and such a situation could easily happen. The realism of the film is truly astonishing. There are no miraculous rescues typical of the genre. One of the characters says something very true: “Why did I survive the fall if I'm going to be eaten by wolves anyway?” It's clear that the characters will die anyway, so the important question is when and how long they can hold out. Yes, it is presented with a small amount of pathos, but the miracle is that this pathos is not annoying. I was moved by the film, by the overall atmosphere, and I even felt cold while watching it. I was so moved that I wasn't even annoyed by the cinematographer's epilepsy, or even by the fact that almost everything was shot with a handheld camera. It's clear that Carnahan is honest, and this film probably revealed that completely for the first time in his career.
People are wolves too, one pack watches, another pack of people runs away from them and tries to fight back. And in that case, the ending of the film seems right. The ending is open, and you have to think about it to decide how the film ended for you. Rare films offer such an opportunity. And it's really gratifying to see Tony Scott among the producers; he could have made a film like this too, masculine and honest. But Karnahan needs it more, given the critics' lukewarm reception. But, damn it, the film moved me deeply, and if you're still clinging on at the beginning, by the end you're applauding. It's not a particularly large-scale, cold, honest, and unexpectedly intelligent film, but that's all you need.