Liam Neeson has been known to fight Nazis, the Sith, Batman, kidnappers and the White Witch, naturally, there was only one thing left to fight. Wolves, obviously. After the plane Ottway (Neeson) and his crew are travelling on crashes to the ground, the survivors must outrun wolves on there escape to civilisation. Exciting stuff you may think (MAY, think).
Certain elements of the film seem to have been given some thought; the way the survivor's hair blows in the bracing wind creates an air of oncoming terror and there are undertones of religion. However, when the characters try and get sentimental, it just seems so fake. It is after all a manly man's film, let's just leave it at that. It is a lot scarier than I had anticipated, but it was the anticipation that scared me, when the wolves finally rear their ugly heads, they were just as fake as the sentiment. A couple of red LEDs in the dark along with gruff panting, does not a convincing wolf make.
Liam Neeson has become some sort of hero in a lot of boys eyes, but alas, he is no superhero. He is no longer a Jedi, so shouldn't be able to defy gravity like one. It's a shame that instead of pitying the survivors of the crash, all I could think about while watching the film was "wow, these wolves are organised".
Check it out on IMDb.
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