“The Gorge” (2025) written by Zach Dean; directed by Scott Derrickson; starring Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver / Z-View
The Gorge (2025)
Director: Scott Derrickson
Screenplay: Zach Dean
Stars: Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, William Houston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Julianna Kurokawa, Samantha Coughlan, Alessandro Garcia and Ruta Gedmintas.
Tagline: They’re not keeping you out. They’re keeping them in.
The Plot…
Levi Kane (Teller), a retired Marine Sniper is hired for a mysterious job that will last one year. Kane is taken to an undisclosed location where he receives his orders.
His mission is to guard one side of a deep gorge. Automated weapons line the rim of the gorge. Mines are strung along the walls of the chasm. Kane will be housed in a tower with equipment to oversea everything. He will have no contact with the outside world except for monthly radio check ins with his employers. A Russian operative is one the other side of the gorge with the same mission. Kane is to have no contact with her.
When Kane asked who they are keeping out of the gorge, he is told, “You’re not keeping anyone out, you’re keeping the creatures that live in there from coming out.”
As the weeks pass, the Russian operative, Drasa (Taylor-Joy) begins communicating with Kane. Short messages turn into conversations, long-distance chess matches and more. A friendship develops.
When things go sidesways Kane and Drasa can depend only on each other to survive the hellish creatures from the gorge.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy have the chemistry needed to make their on-screen relationship work.
Sigourney Weaver was an excellent choice for the role of the corporate boss.
Kudos to writer Zack Dean for creating an action-horror-romance that is original and works. Hats off also to director Scott Derrickson and the team that made the world in the gorge feel like something from one of Dante’s rings of Hell.
Don’t sleep on The Gorge.
The Gorge (2025) rates 4 of 5 stars.
