The Gorge | Apple TV+ | Movie

Stembolt

Now available to stream.

Stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver.

Two highly-trained operatives become close after being sent to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

Rook

I recently watched this and it was an entertaining movie.

The first 20 minutes or so we get some character history and the history of the towers. It's pretty much extended versions of what's shown at the beginning of the trailer. Then we get to see what the towers do when the shit hits the fan.
Then there's about 40 minutes of routine tower stuff, and our characters communicating.
After that it gets strange. And the action stuff kicks in.

Overall it's a turn-your-brain-off and enjoy the action movie with some romance thrown in and some bad dialogue and plot decisions. It looked great and made use of the Atmos speakers at times. Plus Anya Taylor-Joy.

I thought the stuff in the gorge was going to be some type of supernatural menace, which could have been interesting, but it turns out they were created in some sci-fi experiment.

Octavean

I found it very entertaining. Simple concept, great cast, great look and feel. I wouldn’t mind a followup movie. Good stuff.

urbanriot

I enjoyed it, a good mix of drama, thriller, and horror sci-fi.

This is pretty much a Doom meets Stranger Things meets Last of Us rom-com.

The first half was semi-predictable although it's possible that watching the trailer kind of ruined an aspect of the story so maybe it would have been less predictable if I hadn't watched the trailer. The second half was a lot of fun assuming you could turn off your brain and ignore the ridiculousness of how every situation they were in had a quick fix with an easy solution. It would make a good video game though!

Also, I couldn't help but think the whole time, there's a finite number of human hybrid creatures in the gorge so if they had enough ammo they would eventually clear them all out. Also, the first one they took down who was stuck in the horse's stirrup, I would have tried to communicate with it. Same as the one in the silo.

Also good effects for a streaming movie, the antics in the gorge were well done.

Not so sure about a jeep winch pulling up 4200+ pounds of weight on a cable tied to whatever he tied it to

I enjoyed how the first 3/4 of the movie was man against monster while the last 1/4 was man against man, kind of reminded me of the original Half Life + expansion (the video game)

Also, why didn't they shoot the Darklake plane down at the start of its arrival to terminate him? lol.

Ridiculous, dumb, but fun. Like that Amazon Prime movie with Chris Pratt a few summers ago, turn off your brain and enjoy the ride. Satisfying ending but I was kind of hoping for something with a twist of darkness, like Levi shows up, they're kissing, and oh shit there's a mutation on his arm!