‘The Gorge’ Review: Miles Teller And Anya Taylor-Joy Find Love At The Edge Of The World In Action-Filled Romance/Horror Hybrid

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Mile Teller certainly scored points in Top Gun: Maverick, but now with The Gorge he has really flown into the danger zone. Valentine’s Day is certainly appropriate to release this hybrid of several genres including horror, sci-fi, action and romance, the latter due to a clever “meet cute” angle between two sharp-shooting assassins hired to guard East and West towers separated by 600 meters, below them an imposing, dense, foggy forest that holds a dark secret.

No doubt it is a lonely job when Bartholomew (Sigourney Weaver), the shady corporate operative who is one of the few who knows of the top kept secret of what the Gorge holds, recruits Levi (Teller), an ex-Marine and private contractor, a hit man talented with guns and weapons who Bartholomew decides is perfect for the yearlong assignment of making sure there is no escape from the mysterious gorge, a place of which even nine Russian heads and 13 U.S.

Presidents weren’t even aware. Levi is sent there with no knowledge, no ways of communication, including even where in the world he is being dropped literally.

He is met by energetic J.D. (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù) who fills him in on what the job entails as J.D. is anxious to finally go back to civilization after his 365-day stint guarding the gorge from the tall West Tower.