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IN THE GREY

“Unmemorable Action Movie”

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

IN THE GREY is an action thriller where a team of elite operatives, Bronco, Sid and led by Rachel, are sent on an impossible heist. It’s a suicide mission to steal back a billion dollars using automatic weapons and explosives. Rachel is being paid to recover the billion dollars from a criminal controlling an island off the Spanish coast. She assembles a mercenary team for a well-planned heist and extraction that includes chases, fighting, explosions, traps, a vehicle-motorcycle chase, landmines, etc.

IN THE GREY has some superbly executed action but fails overall as a story. The convoluted story is void of high stakes, and the lead characters lack depth. This causes viewers to disengage from the story. IN THE GREY has a strong pagan worldview with lots of deception. The bad guy steals from the good guys, and the good guys steal from the bad guy. There’s also cold killing, mindless action, brief lewd language, and excessive foul language. Finally, the movie glorifies living “in the grey,” between moral and immoral, legal and criminal. MOVIEGUIDE® labels IN THE GREY morally excessive and unacceptable.

Content:

(PaPa, LLL, VV, S, A, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong pagan worldview glorifies living “in the grey,” between moral and immoral, legal and criminal, and justifies violence and revenge

Foul Language:

About 37 or so obscenities, mostly “f” words, and one profanity using the name of Jesus

Violence:

Violence is displayed in shooting, fighting, use of explosions and weapons

Sex:

No sex scenes, but brief sexual dialogue and numerous scenes of women in skimpy bikinis

Nudity:

No explicit nudity, but numerous women in bikinis, and one intentional cleavage shot

Alcohol Use:

A drink is made as part of an explanation of the story

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Lots of deception and bad role models.

More Detail:

IN THE GREY is an action-thriller where a team of elite operatives, played by Jake Gyllenhaal (Bronco), Henry Cavill (Sid), and led by Eiza Gonzales (Rachel), are sent on an impossible heist, a suicide mission, to steal back a billion dollars using automatic weapons and high explosives. The movie has merit for its superbly executed action but fails overall as a story.

Rachel is paid to recover stolen money, a billion dollars, from a criminal controlling an island off the coast of Spain. Rachel then assembles a mercenary team for a well-planned heist and an extraction that includes chases, fighting, explosions, traps, a vehicle-motorcycle chase, landmines, and more.

The first hour of IN THE GREY is filled with excessive exposition for the planning of the mission, which then leaves little to treasure when the actual heist and escape action occurs in the final act. The story is void of high stakes, and the lead characters lack depth. This causes viewers to disengage from the story and ask, “Why should we care?” Also, the plot is rather convoluted. That said, the movie’s locales are magnificent and include Spain, Saudi Arabia and the Canary Islands. Technically, IN THE GREY shines with its Mission Impossible type strategy of detailed execution that leads to the already expected action.

IN THE GREY has a strong pagan worldview and contains lots of deception, with the bad guy stealing from the good guys, and the good guys stealing from the bad guy, cold killing, sexual verbiage, the intentional “in the camera” sensual display of cleavage from the main character, women in skimpy bikinis, some alcohol, violence, mindless action, and excessive foul language.

IN THE GREY is rated R for violence, sensuality, and language, and demands caution for older children and teens. It glorifies living “in the grey” area, between moral and immoral, legal and criminal.