The Gorge (Apple, 2025)
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:17 pm
Took me a while to find it on the waves, but patience pays off.
As most people have probably already heard, this is a movie about two sexy ex-army super-sniper guarding what looks like the gates of hell
but is actually a 1950s atomic age bio-experiment gone horribly wrong.
Don't be fooled by "Sigourney Weaver" being in this, she's more of a controlling background character, and she looks to be about 80.
The attraction for some people will be Anya Taylor-Joy, who is a great actress and has the capacity to be quite sexy.
Especially considering that she's not really super-beautiful (her face looks so weird) and her body is the opposite of voluptuous (she's skinny as a rail and barely even has an ass) she pulls off the romantic lead quite well, although I would severely doubt her ability to fight off a whole horde of monsters. I wouldn't recommend her as an action movie star in general - she's too small and scrawny. But for most of the film, she does wear a nice tight outfit, which is nice, although it's no Black Widow.
Anya (as the Lithuanian sniper Drasa) does get into some nice peril. She's attacked by the scary monster-mutants. One of them drags her by a rope from behind his horse (I think the Mongols had a specific term for that but I forget what it is). Another monster hangs her upside down and tied-up by her feet from his industrial warehouse lair.
It kind of disappoints me sometimes how much modern warfare/action movies are about fighting either robotic drones or CGI monsters rather than real hand-to-hand action combat like in the 80s or the Kung Fu days, but that's the world we live in. Nonetheless, I thought it was a decent enough time, and maybe even deserves a sequel if Drasa and her new beau (played by Miles Teller) get called back into action.
The one thing that did seem hard to believe was that the entire hellmouth situation was guarded by only TWO soldiers. But since it was an operation by the private corporation Darklake (obviously a take on 'Blackwater') maybe it was just a matter of corporate cheapness.
Anyone else check this out yet?
As most people have probably already heard, this is a movie about two sexy ex-army super-sniper guarding what looks like the gates of hell
but is actually a 1950s atomic age bio-experiment gone horribly wrong.
Don't be fooled by "Sigourney Weaver" being in this, she's more of a controlling background character, and she looks to be about 80.
The attraction for some people will be Anya Taylor-Joy, who is a great actress and has the capacity to be quite sexy.
Especially considering that she's not really super-beautiful (her face looks so weird) and her body is the opposite of voluptuous (she's skinny as a rail and barely even has an ass) she pulls off the romantic lead quite well, although I would severely doubt her ability to fight off a whole horde of monsters. I wouldn't recommend her as an action movie star in general - she's too small and scrawny. But for most of the film, she does wear a nice tight outfit, which is nice, although it's no Black Widow.
Anya (as the Lithuanian sniper Drasa) does get into some nice peril. She's attacked by the scary monster-mutants. One of them drags her by a rope from behind his horse (I think the Mongols had a specific term for that but I forget what it is). Another monster hangs her upside down and tied-up by her feet from his industrial warehouse lair.
It kind of disappoints me sometimes how much modern warfare/action movies are about fighting either robotic drones or CGI monsters rather than real hand-to-hand action combat like in the 80s or the Kung Fu days, but that's the world we live in. Nonetheless, I thought it was a decent enough time, and maybe even deserves a sequel if Drasa and her new beau (played by Miles Teller) get called back into action.
The one thing that did seem hard to believe was that the entire hellmouth situation was guarded by only TWO soldiers. But since it was an operation by the private corporation Darklake (obviously a take on 'Blackwater') maybe it was just a matter of corporate cheapness.
Anyone else check this out yet?
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