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I wrote recently aboutCaptain America: Brave New World feeling like half a movie.
Well,Appleslatest streaming push, The Gorge, goes one better - its two halves of a movie.
This is not your classic make X movie into a game pitch.
Bloody women, eh?
Despite being banned from contacting each other, Taylor-Joys character initiates communication a few months in on her birthday.
Tellers character, a traumatised poet, then takes the forbidden step.
His lady love descends after him, but loses her equipment, and they are stuck in the gorge.
To paraphrase Scream 5, welcome to act two, baby.
The Gorges second half is not good.
It becomes sloppy, disjointed, and throws action scenes at you relentlessly with few stakes and no cohesiveness.
I dont mean to denigrate video games when I say this decline in quality makes me think of them.
And its not just that it would work as a game - several parts feel like theyarea game.
Theres an exploding barrels moment.
Theyride a jeep up a cliff while constantly shooting at attackersa laUncharted.
Some moments even feel directly from video games.
The Gorge is not a great movie.
That developer may be sitting on a gold mine.
The Superman is months away and already one of the most exhausting movies ever to talk about.
