First there was “Dancing With Wolves;” now you can say we have “Dinner With Wolves.” As if it were not bad enough to go down in a plane crash, in a remote area of Alaska, those that survived were being viewed as intruders by a wolf pack. This was a great setup for the story and the harshness of the climate only added to a rising tension. Liam Neeson (Taken, Schindler’s List) played Ottway, a hired sharpshooter to protect the oil rig team of men from stray wolves. As an older action type hero, Liam was solid in this role and seemed to be the only one in the group with any survival skills. The first half of the film kept an expanding pace of desparation as the men had to battle the elements and the threatening animals. Some scenes seemed far fetched, some were gory, but it really did not matter. The last half of  the movie, for me, became repetitive as one crisis after another unfolded. By the end of the movie I did not care who survived or who perished; I just wanted to get in from out of the cold.

2 2/3 stars

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