Good day guys, this is an article on everything that's wrong with the movie The Gorge which is a 2025 movie.
To start with, The Gorge is a nice movie, but of course as a very good film critic I spotted several inconsistencies in the storyline and facts in its representations in the movie. So without further ado, we will be going straight into it.
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Creepy Drasa (Anya Taylor Joy)
To start with, apart from the fact that Drasa is, well, what I would call a stereotypical Russian spy in every Western movie I've seen, and I have seen quite a lot. But strangely enough, I have to admit it's going to be a part of the success of the movie. Now the main issue is that Drasa was very, very creepy. Did you notice how every time, practically every time Levi, her counterpart from the Western side looked through a telescope and she was doing something random she always somehow knew he was looking at her? This happened up to three times which I counted in the movie. For instance, when she was crying about her dad's suicide, Levi just went randomly to look through this telescope, from Ana crying she turned around and looked at him as if she knew, regardless of the distance he was watching her (mind you, the gorge is so wide that they can't clearly see each other without the help of the lenses).
Whenever he goes to look at her with his telescope, she turns and looks directly at him down the telescope. So I think that they should have had a way of properly making it look like it was random other than making Drasa look like she had a superpower. As I said earlier that this happened up to three times in the movie
Horsemen
The story around the horsemen was very unrealistic and unfactual. Hold your horses, I know it is a fictional movie (you see what I did there?)*. However, when watching the clip inside the Gorge, a scientist said it was like a side project of Oppenheimer
However, Oppenheimer was around the year 1945.
“For three years, Oppenheimer and a huge team of scientists worked towards the creation of an atomic bomb out of a military laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Their work culminated in the first nuclear detonation in history, known as the Trinity test, on 16 July 1945” (source www.independent.co.uk)
Whereas, we were previously told that about 2000 horsemen rode into the gorge to somehow solve the problem. Now the problem is that this was reported to have happened in the 1800s, a century before there was even an issue. So, how did the horsemen come about?
Riddle me that!
Good CGI
Okay so I'm not going to be crazy and not acknowledge that some aspects, a lot of aspects actually as regards the film was great. I'm going to start with the CGI.
Okay, so the CGI was quite okay for the movie, I did not really see the best resolution version of the movie, but the CGI was very nice for a movie this year, Right? So the horsemen and the hollow men, in fact all the monsters were very unique as the only place I've seen such monsters is in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise where there was something very similar in one of the installments of the franchise. However, these were very strange monsters and I think they were okay. And as you guys would agree, the CGI in the gorge was a bit practical.
Not too futuristic
So, another good part of the movie was that it was not too futuristic. A lot of movies try to adopt futuristic technologies into it and end up messing it up.
One of the movies I would say did that was a marvel movie (marvel series -secret invasion) where there were skulls. So remember previously how marvel has built up technology, tech from Iron-Man tech to having access to intergalactic weapons and all other stuff. Even Shield itself was very very highly technological.
Now while they should have tried to incorporate it in the movie, they failed terribly. In the movie- Secret invasion, when they attacked the US president, he was driving a very random bulletproof car. I mean this is a Civilization that has vibranium and all the best technologies, you see how basic that scene was. A very basic scene with normal guns.
Anyways, the Gorge tried and kept up with the theme. That's my point, they started with a good enough technology, trying to keep it quite simple and they run with this throughout. A somewhat significant technology in the movie was that drone that came out of the gorge when Levi was installing a new suspended mine. Apart from that, they successfully kept it quite simple.
A good explosion
As a big sci-fi fan and action movie fan, I'm going to admit I love and I love and once again I love a good explosion scene. When the bomb- ‘stray dog’ got detonated, I got to say and admit that it was quite a good scene. Okay, going back to the CGI again, I think I'm going to rate the explosion scene a 7 out of 10 cos’ it was quite a nice one.
A happy ending
For this part I'm going to say that whilst they gave Levi and Drasa happy ending, howbeit, it also did not completely acknowledge that the ‘woman boss’ was dead, so it's kind of kept it open that they could possibly be a sequel of the movie where they're going to hold the two parties (Levi and Drasa) for destroying such valuable research, or going to tie them down in something new and that's where it becomes interesting because I don't think it's possible to take down such a massive organization without consequences. Like you see the tech they have access to- cloaking technology. As such, they can't just finish from there and just go to some beautiful island afterwards, falling in love, or continue in love and pretend nothing ever happened.
Although funding is going to be a very important part of this, I believe there is going to be a sequel..