Rating: 
Taken and Unknown, two recently successful early-year releases, used Liam Neeson as a foreboding physical presence, someone who could drill out one-liners and knock-out anonymous villains with equal force and fury. Both films worked well on those limited terms. Joe Carnahan’s The Grey is an entirely different beast, one as menacing and foreign as the white-eyed wolves that frighteningly populate much of the film. Carnahan uses Neeson as a well-rounded actor — a human being with emotions and psychological undercurrents that, more often than not, overpower the weight of his towering frame. (No way is this guy pushing 60.)
