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Very disappointed. I loved Taken for its fast-paced plot and cool fights and Liam Neeson as the protagonist.

The Grey has none of that. It's a basically a drawn-out story of Liam being outsmarted by wolves. Classic example from a movie (small spoiler):

Liam and another guy are walking along a river bank. Two wolves run up. Liam screams "RUN! RUN!!" and starts trudging through knee-deep snow at approximately 3 mph while the wolves run up at 10 mph or so and then trot parallel to him, watching him curiously (remember there's nothing but forest for miles and miles around, so they must be thinking "this human is really dumb as we're obviously 5 times faster than him"). In short order, Liam's buddy falls into the stream. Liam dives after him. The wolves are all like "our job here is done, see ya in a bit" and walk off.

There's really nothing in the movie that's worth seeing. No great acting, no cool fights, no McGuiver stuff (well, they make some bangsticks, use one, then the bangsticks vanish for unexplained reasons - presumably those Darwin award contestants lose em). Heck, Liam uses a knife and a broken bottle in a final fight because he was too dumb to pick up any of the other half dozen knives we see in the film.

PS. How it should have been:

IMO a grown man with two knives on good lanyards and with a few bent pieces of aircraft aluminum added over clothes (gorget, bracers, greaves - an hour's work with a good knife, plus some rope or tape) would be able to take on a wolf and win, or at the very least stab the beast half a dozen times before going down. Don't panic, don't run away, don't break off from the group - the wolves would give up after a couple skirmishes.

Heck, the group didn't even make a cargo sled (strip of cloth + aluminum sheet), and nobody ever tries to escape from a wolf on a tree!

Best wishes,
Daniel

drawn-out story of Liam being outsmarted by wolves.

Yeah, I gotta agree. It's very rare I watch a movie in the theater, and I'm sorry I wasted it on this one. Nothing much in the entire plot was believable. It's probably a dozen men against big dogs, for crying out loud.

If you haven't seen The Hunted. Watch it. Great knife fights.