Young Snipers in Love Across The Gorge
Apple TV+’s The Gorge finds two attractive young snipers, Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, flirting across the abyss as they guard the gates of hell below. It’s a promising premise, but it never pays off.
Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy in The Gorge. (Apple TV+)
The Gorge is a wildly silly action-sci-fi-horror-romance, released on Apple TV+ on Valentine’s Day to alert you to the way it stresses the “unusual love story” angle. Maintaining a conventionally brooding atmosphere through gloomy CGI, The Gorge is about two top snipers stationed in towers on opposite sides of a sinister chasm in a remote forested location. Both are assigned to keep whatever’s in there from getting out.
Since one sniper is played by beautiful Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa, The Witch) and the other is played by handsome Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick, Whiplash), it’s obvious that somehow the gorge will have to be spanned so the two can get together. And whatever’s actually inside the gorge will have to be confronted.
On top of that, a tough and sinister “top spook” type (Sigourney Weaver) who gives the male sniper this strange assignment is half-obscured by a shadow during the entire scene. So that means there’s an evil and secretive plot run by the NSA or the CIA or some nasty global corporate entity that’s centered on the gorge, and that will have to be confronted too.
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