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There are plot holes and there are PLOT HOLES. Then, there's an altogether separate category of films that are in their entirety a plot hole. The Gorge fits into the latter. Virtually every element of this movie requires you to say "oh well, it's just a bit of fun anyway" as an excuse for the absolute lack of logic or plausibility behind plot elements.

This would be fine (not every film has to be practically believable) but The Gorge takes itself very seriously most of the time and as such, I'm not sure that I can let the team behind this off the hook for having created something so clearly nonsensical. The first 30 minutes is decent at best but after that the drop-off in quality and intrigue is astronomical. I can't imagine how anyone green-lit this production for Apple TV, much less how they justified spending so much money on such a shallow, poorly-executed film.

This is acting-by-numbers. This is cliche-driven character development. This is style-over-substance except there's not even much style. This is a waste of time.

At best it's a bog-standard, 5/10 but I might forgive a 6/10 rating if you were feeling generous. To see other users rating it higher than that gives me less than a little hope for the future of audience-driven film making.

Like so many people, I had high hopes for this show based on the multi-dimensional successes of GOT. Imagine my disappointment after committing to six episodes of some of the most boring, detached TV I've ever seen. The entire thing feels like a contradiction - somehow the writers have managed to rush the season while simultaneously failing to generate any interest whatsoever. It's Game Of Thrones with neither intrigue nor action. I'm left feeling nothing for the characters and thus, disconnected from the plot altogether, and I wager that if it weren't for reputation of this show's predecessor, House of The Dragon would be sitting at a dwindling 5 stars on IMDb. It certainly doesn't deserve the 8+ rating that it currently holds...