Joe Carnahan has crafted a bone-chilling and relentless journey into the void.

"The Grey" explores man's most frightening questions...if there's an afterlife or if "dead is dead"...our fear of heights, flights, drowning or dying alone.

In the case of The Grey, less would have decidedly been more.

Liam Neeson, in his 50s, convincingly, and even poetically, takes himself to another place when playing these survival and revenge roles at his age.