Ottoway Review (The Grey)"Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I’ll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day.”
I mentioned Liam Neeson playing Ottoway back in my review, and I thought I had enough for a character review. Liam Neeson really was the make or break for the movie. If Ottoway wasn’t interesting, the movie wasn’t. Ottoway continued to see flashbacks of who we assume is his wife. And besides that we know he kills wolves. But he like most of Liam Neeson’s roles is just a bad ass. Throughout the whole movie, you want everyone to just shut up, and listen to him. He although not really doing anything, did everything. He didn’t kill one damn wolf, didn’t save one damn person, but dammit he was awesome! You feel he’s smart and he has a lot of depth. You get his love, his father, you get the whole package of a character. And the epic quote above, yeah that means a lot. The movie is about how rather than killing himself, he lives and dies on this day. And the characters in the movie had a lot of counterparts in the wolves. And he is the alpha male, he is the counterpart to that wolf. It was nice to have a bad ass Irish smart dude for a main character, with a lot of good scenes. And maybe he really did live after that fight with the wolf, who really knows? But he makes a good character. Again, these character reviews are hard, and they’re just kind of having a rank for the sake of it. But he’s a very likeable dude, and gets a two out of two, despite how weird of a rank that is. Ottoway, John, you sir, are awesome.
Ottoway gets a 2/2
