Rotten Tomatoes: 62%
Movie Meter: 7/10
Release: 2025
Genre: Science Fiction/Thriller
Available: Apple TV
The Gorge is one of those movies where the premise sounds absolutely ridiculous when you try to explain it to somebody, but somehow it works.
Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy play two highly trained operatives stationed in separate towers on opposite sides of a massive classified gorge. Their job is basically simple: guard the gorge and make sure whatever the hell is down there stays down there.
That’s about all you should know going in.
The first half of this movie was actually my favorite part. Teller and Taylor-Joy are basically alone for huge stretches of the movie and have to build chemistry while standing on opposite sides of a canyon. Somehow they pull it off. Their relationship gives the movie way more personality than I expected, and Miles Teller is perfect for this type of role. He’s always been good at playing a guy who’s confident while also looking like he hasn’t gotten a full eight hours of sleep since 2014.
Then The Gorge decides it’s done being one movie and turns into something completely different.
Once you actually find out what’s down there, the movie goes full sci-fi/action/horror. Normally that kind of genre switch would lose me, but I was already invested enough in the characters that I went along with it.
Is some of it ridiculous? Absolutely.
Did I care? Not really.
That’s kind of the beauty of The Gorge. It isn’t trying to reinvent cinema. It’s a cool concept with two likable leads, some creepy visuals, solid action, and enough mystery to keep you interested for two hours.
Anya Taylor-Joy continues to be good in basically everything she’s in, and she and Teller have surprisingly great chemistry. Sigourney Weaver also shows up because apparently if your movie involves a mysterious threat to humanity, Hollywood is legally required to call Sigourney Weaver.
The movie probably could’ve shaved 15 or 20 minutes off the runtime, and the explanation behind the gorge isn’t quite as interesting as the mystery leading up to it. But I had a good time with it.
Sometimes that’s enough.