The Gorge is a 2025 action-adventure horror-romance brought to us by Scott Derrickson, director of arguably the scariest movie ever made, Sinister. It stars Miles Teller (Whiplash, Spiderhead) in his first foray into the genre. He plays an elite sniper who has been headhunted for a super secret mission where he’s asked to guard a deep gorge with pretty much no other information.
On the other side of the gorge is his counterpart, another elite sniper played by Anya Taylor-Joy. She’s Lithuanian, if that matters. The film also stars Sigourney Weaver, who is no stranger to the genre. She is the headhunter who recruits Miles Teller’s character, so basically the one keeping the big secrets.
We spend most of the movie watching them develop a long-distance relationship despite this massive gorge between them, and the two accidentally uncover the massive secret behind the gorge.
I personally was glued to the screen for most of the film. It does a lot with little dialog, and eventually we get some really interesting and creepy creature design. The main plot is very straight forward and maybe holds our hands a bit too much as we begin to pull back the curtains on this government conspiracy.
The main plot feels a bit rushed towards the end, and viewers who regularly complain about endings being too vague will probably complain about this one being too happy, because that’s how online criticism works these days.
The movie is carried by Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy’s acting, as they draw the viewer into their unlikely love story. I could have used a bit more facetime from Sigourney Weaver, but that is neither here nor there. The mystery behind it all alone makes the movie worth watching. I don’t really like to be impacted by online reviews, so all I’ll say is before I went online to see what others thought of the movie, I looked into the future and could see this one living on people’s top 15 list at the end of the year.
I personally think that The Gorge got robbed of a deserved theatrical release, as it was just released on Apple TV+. I’m not a huge promoter of Apple as a whole, but you can get a 7-day free trial to the service to watch The Gorge. And then quickly unsubscribe before Apple gets any more of your money.
