Somewhere, deep in the forests of an undisclosed location in Europe, there is a valley.
The existence of this no-mans land is a secret known to those with only the highest security clearances.
Towers sit high atop the cliffs on both sides of the canyon, facing each other.
Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘The Gorge.‘Laura Radford/AppleTV+
One houses black-ops military personnel from the West, the other from from the East.
For decades, two lone soldiers have been tasked with guarding this region.
When one tenure ends, a new one begins, and fresh blood is rotated in.
The mission is not to keep folks from entering the alleged wasteland that lies beneath the mist.
Its to keep whatever is down there from comingout.
She wants to hire him for West Tower duty.
Blast whatever tries to crawl, slither or fly up to the top.
And for Gods sake, do not communicate with your counterpart across the chasm!
As for his fellow sniper from the East?
Big shout-out to T.S.
Which is admittedly unexpected, given whos playing the lovelorn professional killers.
Those initial appearances of the Hollow Men could not be more eerie, to be sure.
After the movie reduces them to the equivalent of eight-bit video-game protagonists Run!
it digs itself into a hole that its either unwilling or simply unable to climb out of.
