A FUN and EXCITING GENRE-BLENDER: The Gorge

The Gorge is directed by Scott Derrickson and stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy and is currently streaming on Apple TV + and it’s about two highly trained agents who become close after being sent to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge, but when an evil arises, they must work together to survive what lies within.

Scott Derrickson is one of my favorite directors working today. I love his film since The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Doctor Strange, Sinister, Black Phone, he’s got Black Phone 2 coming out. I really love his films, I love his approach to filmmaking and The Gorge is a very unique addition to his filmography because he’s obviously played in the realm of sci-fi before and certainly horror and this film is a mix of genres of not only those but also romance because these two snipers who are positioned on opposite sides of this gorge eventually start sending each other notes. They're looking at each other through binoculars, they're getting to know each other without speaking and that's actually one of my favorite parts of the entire movie.

There's a lot of cool stuff here, there's genre stuff here, but the reason the movie ultimately worked for me is because of this central relationship, but also how they build together as a team against a greater evil that's not just about what's lurking in The Gorge, but could also be about a more controlling force that they'll have to deal with, resulting in dire consequences for both of them.

First of all, this movie looks great. Scott Derrickson isn't going to direct a bad looking movie, but in particular, the action scenes are very well directed, you can see everything very clearly, there's nothing that's too murky or unclear, the action is well defined, you understand what's going on and some of that gave me the vibes of what I would have expected from a really good Dead Space movie or even a The Last of Us or Doom adjacent property. It feels like it lives in that world but it doesn’t borrow from those titles in a way that felt obvious but again in that central relationship, there’s a lot of really crazy stuff that happens in this movie, a lot of really crazy action and sci-fi scenes that get really intense but it’s that central relationship that keeps you grounded and makes you care about these characters and Teller and Joy work so well together and Ana Taylor-Joy in particular is a standout here she’s really pulling a lot of weight she does a fantastic job in the movie and I got into her character wholeheartedly she’s great in the action scenes as well as the emotional ones and like I said the movie is a mix of genres its able to play with so many different types of movies i mean there’s this aspect where they’re spying on each other at the beginning and it feels almost like rear Window so they’re just watching each other and eventually once they realize they’re both watching they start sending each other notes.

I found this aspect of the movie very intriguing and I could totally see a version of this movie where the characters never speak to each other face to face and it still would have worked fine but the movie doesn’t get made unless they start fighting and there’s some action and this part of the movie was a lot of fun I was actually surprised at how sectioned everything was and it’s very efficient like I said at the beginning in that you have this kind of romantic rear window watch. The body double happens for the first 30 or 40 minutes of the movie and then you have this really intense Aliens SL Doom thing going on before the end of the movie, which of course I won’t get into any SPOILERS, but it starts to get to a place where you’re like “I see where we’re going with all this information that the characters have learned and why it had to be this way and split up that way” and I think it’s actually really, really well done.

I tend to go into streaming film with a bit of skepticism, a lot of them just don’t deliver, but lately Apple, especially with their TV shows has been making a lot of really good creative decisions and The Gorge feels like the kind of movie that you don’t really see that much anymore that has a central idea that’s enough and then decides to add in all these monsters and beasts and things that you wouldn’t really expect to be in this movie and more lore that you can discover in the movie itself. There’s a lot here and I can totally see why that might be a problem, it’s a hard sell for some audience members, but I like movies like that. I don’t need my movies to put a full stop to everything and say “This is all we’re doing”. I love it when a movie tries to do a lot of different things and this movie succeeds at a lot of them.

One of the reasons I think that relationship works so well is because they’re both so highly trained as sharpshooters that they can look at each other and say “Did you do that job?” I heard about that. That was that crazy take. And they’re like, “Yeah, I could have done that.” And they can go back and forth about that and it’s an instant connection because they don’t have a lot of time to bond so they have to be able to get close pretty quickly and the fact that they instantly have this great connection over the fact that they’re both so trained really HELPS part of the story.

The Gorge has a lot of fun action, really good creature design, and a great performance from Anya Taylor-Joy. I really enjoyed it, so if you want to check it out, it’s on Apple TV+ right now.

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