It’s a title he’s welcome to - and who’d dare fight him for it? No question that Ottway is Neeson, declaring himself king of the cold-weather movies. When the plane carrying him and some other gruff souls crashes, and the seven survivors are menaced by ferocious timber wolves, Ottway declares himself the alpha male of the human pack and tries leading them to safety through the punishing snow. In The Grey, his boldest frostbite statement yet, Neeson plays Ottway, a professional wolf-hunter on an Alaskan oilrig. In his late fifties, after playing Oskar Schindler, Michael Collins, Alfred Kinsey, Jean Valjean, Qui-Gon Jinn and Aslan the deitific Narnia lion, this imposing slab of Irish manhood turned himself into a wintertime action hero in Taken and Unknown. Further instruction awaits the viewers of The Grey, a suitably bleak-midwinter action movie whose syllabus includes the feeding habits of Alaskan wolves and the odd career choices of Liam Neeson. January movies are like homework for misfits. We get an education too, becoming experts in the fine points of exorcism ( The Devil Inside), smuggling ( Contraband) and vampire-Lycan enmity ( Underworld Awakening). Ignoring the snootier Oscar fare, we patronize winter genre films, the oversize spawn of antique B pictures. Follow the hardiest breed of entertainment consumers? Moviegoers in January.
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