Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Two expert snipers \u2014 a Lithuanian woman and an American man \u2014 are assigned as sentries on either side of a mysterious cloud-filled gorge. Neither is allowed to contact the other; neither knows what country they are in, or what lies in the abyss below. This is, by any standard, a crisp premise for a thriller-horror-action hybrid, the sort that could pay off very nicely \u2014 as long as the rules are followed rigorously before being ingeniously bent.No such luck with The Gorge. After a taut set-up, Scott Derrickson\u2019s film gets restless and starts larking around that bit too soon, as moody Miles Teller and impish, punky Anya Taylor-Joy get together across the divide \u2014 even fitting in a gratuitous dance duet before the gorge disgorges its secrets.Derrickson made his name as a horror specialist before directing 2016\u2019s Doctor Strange, the most visually inventive film in the Marvel cycle. But The Gorge is drab stuff, with a mechanical video-game feel, devolving into an unwieldy mess of effects that suggests a cut-price hybrid of Lovecraft-style crawling chaos and B-movie \u201cscience gone too far\u201d.Taylor-Joy, always enjoyable to watch, ekes some mischief from her character. But given how compelling she was in TV series The Queen\u2019s Gambit, it is a shame to see her wasted in a routine action role, even if she has a little more space to emote than in last year\u2019s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. As for Teller, who was so promising in Whiplash, he is another of those appealingly unconventional male leads (like Taron Egerton and Chris Pratt) who has been drearily recrafted as an identihunk, albeit here with a faintly rakish edge. Sigourney Weaver, embodying the Powers That Be, contributes bought-in class \u2014 rather more convincingly than the TS Eliot quotes that pepper Zach Dean\u2019s script. Cheddar Gorge isn\u2019t nearly this cheesy.\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606On Apple TV+ from February 14\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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