Looks like Liam Neeson has scored once again as hunky action hero guy.
The Grey concerns the travails of the survivors of an Artic plane crash battling ravenous wolves (Are there any other kind? Well, actually, yes, as I expect quite a few environmentalists are screaming right about now.) In any case, while it left USA Today's Claudia Puig, ahem, cold
http://tinyurl.com/6m4jka3 , the movie and Neeson have A. O. Scott in the NY Times and Dana Stevens in Slate shivering with deelite. NYT:
http://tinyurl.com/7z3v9e2 ; Slate
http://tinyurl.com/7rekl5m. Neeson never had quite the level of handsomeness and cock-sureness for traditional leading man success, but now all his heavy humanity is working in his favor, even though he'll be 60 this year. Even within the confines of slickly packaged Hollywood violence--maybe especially within those confines--movie goers like to see someone who resembles an actual human being, wrinkles and all. This standard applies to men only, of course. Wanna see a woman battling wolves? Well, let's get perky, you betcha!
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Palin: "Honey, bring your big gun,
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