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THE GORGE

"Sacrificial Love Saves the Day"

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THE GORGE is a riveting action thriller about a man and a woman, two highly trained operatives hired by Eastern and Western forces to guard a mysterious and dangerous gorge. A romance blossoms between Levi and Drasa across the gorge. When they uncover the horrors below, love gives these once lonely people the courage to work together and fight the evil lurking beneath them.

THE GORGE is an action-packed thriller where love wins the day. It has a strong Christian, moral worldview. After Levi falls in love, he proclaims he will fight because he now has “everything to live for.” Also, Levi and Drasa risk their lives to save each other and save humanity. Thus, THE GORGE tells a strong story of sacrifice, courage and the power of love to give meaning in life. It has just the right amount of jeopardy to make this story a winner. However, THE GORGE has intense, scary action scenes, an off-screen suicide, a few strong but brief obscenities, and an implied love scene between the unmarried couple. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises strong caution for older children and adults.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong Christian, moral worldview supports patriotic duty and serving others, plus the Christian song “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” is delivered with a hard rock motif, the main characters display sacrificial love and risk their lives to save each other and save the world from the evil creatures in the gorge, woman says, “May God have mercy on us for what we have done” in a video, there are visual references to a church, and a woman writes, “May God forgive us,” but the male lead writes a Buddhist quote on the wall saying, “Three things that cannot be hidden are the sun, the moon and the truth”;

Foul Language:
One “f” word, and 11 other obscenities (including five “s” words);

Violence:
Strong and often intense action violence includes main characters are almost killed several times, guns, bombings, several shootings, explosions, monstrous and scary hybrid creature with human and animal traits swarm and attack several times, death by suicide occurs off-screen, war crimes discussed in dialogue, chemical weapons research, dialogue about torture and death and children being tortured, and scary skeletons;

Sex:
It’s implied a man and woman slept together, woman makes a joke the man “is trying to get in her pants,” a few kisses, and there’s a heavy kiss;

Nudity:
Man viewed naked from behind at far distance so it is obscured, and male upper nudity in shower;

Alcohol Use:
The soldiers drink liquor in a few scenes;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or illegal drugs, but there’s dialogue about using medication to sleep; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Nothing else objectionable.

More Detail:

THE GORGE is a riveting action thriller about a man and a woman who are highly trained operatives hired to guard a mysterious and dangerous gorge in a project supported by eastern and western world forces. A romance blossoms between the soldiers from opposite sides of the ravine. When they uncover the horrors down below, love gives these once lonely people the courage to work together and fight the evil that lurks beneath them. THE GORGE contains violent attacks, explosions, shooting, stabbing, an off-screen suicide, a few strong but brief obscenities, and an implied love scene between an unmarried couple. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises strong caution for older children and young teenagers.

Levi, portrayed by a screen favorite Miles Teller, is one of the best sharp shooters in the world. Down on life, connected to no one, he is hired by Bartholomew, played by Sigourney Weaver, for a solitary high security government job guarding a gorge at an undisclosed location. On arriving, Levi is given details of his job from the last soldier to guard the gorge, J.D. When Levi asks him what’s down there, J.D. exclaims that it’s “the door to Hell.”

The gorge is a joint project of both eastern and western governments. Levi soon learns that he’s not protecting the gorge from outside intruders, but rather protecting the outside world from “hollow men” who try to get out of the gorge. Levi sets his sights on a beautiful Russian soldier, Drasa, who guards the gorge from the other side of the chasm. The two manage to communicate over the gorge which separates them.

Levi makes the leap to cross over to the other side to meet Drasa. The two soldiers fall in love. However, Levi falls into the pit. Drasa jumps in to save him.

Bedlam ensues as monstrous hollow men try to kill and eat them. Levi and Drasa escape many twists, turns and attacks in the place they refer to as Hell. However, they discover the gorge isn’t actually Hell, but it’s a place where great evil takes place. Now that they have something to live for, will the couple simply try to escape, or do they care enough to stop the evil and save humanity?

THE GORGE is an action-packed thriller where love wins the day. The movie has a strong redemptive worldview. After Levi professes his love to Drasa and she returns the sentiment, Levi proclaims that he will fight because now he has “everything to live for.” The main characters risk their lives to save each other. They sacrifice their lives to save all of humanity from evil.

THE GORGE has a slow start, but ultimately delivers. Strong acting, thrilling action scenes, and creative graphics will keep many and probably most viewers on the edge of their seats. The strong story of sacrifice, courage and the power of love to give meaning in life, along with just the right amount of jeopardy make THE GORGE a winner.

As noted above, MOVEGUIDE® advises strong caution for older children and adults. See our CONTENT section for details.


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