Movie critics are feeling pretty good, albeit not great, about Scott Derrickson’s new Apple TV+ movie The Gorge.
“Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within,” the synopsis reads. “They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.”
The Gorge will be released on Apple TV+ on Friday, February 14, 2025.
What are critics saying about The Gorge?
ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim gave the movie an 8/10. While noting that it’s not a perfect film and has “a few predictable ideas,” Sim praised Teller and Taylor-Joy’s performances and noted they both “know how to sell a good action scene and a love connection.”
IGN’s A.A. Dowd also gave the film a positive review with a 7/`0 score. Dowd said that it is “a much more striking sci-fi action flick about radioactive monsters disappearing into the streaming abyss” compared to Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Lovia Gyarkye said that, while the movie starts out strong enough, the “general rigidity and lack of thrills become more apparent” as it goes along. IndieWire’s David Ehrlich also didn’t feel super positive toward the movie and gave it a C, saying, “The action grows a bit more audacious as our heroes try to escape the fray and take matters into their own hands, but a few explosive moments and a nifty bit with a dangling Jeep can’t save The Gorge from resolving into the most obvious movie you could think to make from such a potentially rich premise.”
Bloody Disgusting’s Meagan Navarro, meanwhile, gave The Gorge a 3/5, while SlashFilm’s Jeremy Mathai crowned it with a 7/10.
