“I'm calling on you,” pleads Ottway (Liam Neeson) to the heavens, but God isn't listening in this grisly, gripping Alaskan horror.
Ottway, along with his fellow oil-rig workers, has crash-landed in an unforgiving snowy wilderness. Not only are the “fortunate” survivors unlikely to be rescued, they're also beset by murderous wolves. Ottway, a wolf-hunter, is their only hope. Neeson delivers his strongest performance in some time in Joe Carnahan's exquisitely photographed slice of hokum.
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