It’s not a werewolf movie, but it has a pack of wolves in it (no Taylor Lautner for the girls, though). Instead, Liam Neeson stars in another epic action adventure film The Grey set in the freezing climate of Alaska.

While most scenes with the wolves were generated through CGI effects, the production team wasn’t able to avoid controversy after environmental activists learned that they bought four wolf carcasses from a local trapper two of which were used as props whereas the remaining two served as supper for the cast to eat (really? wolves for dinner?). Environmental groups also became irate as the movie portrays wolves in a bad light leading a group of wolf advocates campaigning to boycott the film. I personally admire director Joe Carnahan for his daring move to use real wolf carcasses as props, but eating them for dinner is just outright wrong. And although I think the movie sheds a bad light on wolves, seeing the film is another matter and judging it is another story altogether.

Movie critics on the other hand praise Carnahan’s film for its surprising philosophical undertone embedded in the plot itself. As typical survival stories go, a plane crash leaves a team of oil drillers without food, water and fire in the remotest area of Alaska. Luckily, Neeson knows how to survive the harshest weathers and leads the team to find food and shelter. Soon after, a pack of witty grey wolves finds the team and attacks them as if they are intruding the pack’s territory. How long will they last the cold? Where will they run? How will they survive? Find out as The Grey hits the cinemas this January 27.

Poster pic from The Grey.

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