In RIFT (2025), directed by Denis Villeneuve, Denzel Washington and Gal Gadot headline a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller that pits humanity against a fracturing reality. Washington plays Dr. Elias Kane, a grizzled physicist who discovers a tear in spacetime—a “rift”—unleashing chaotic anomalies across Los Angeles: gravity inversions, time loops, alien energy pulses.

As governments scramble, Kane teams with Major Anya Voss (Gadot), a fearless ex-Mossad operative now leading a UN task force, to locate the rift’s source—a derelict orbital station broadcasting a signal from beyond our universe. Their mission: seal it before Earth collapses into a cosmic void. But Kane’s haunted past—a failed experiment that killed his family—and Voss’s ruthless pragmatism spark friction, even as they dodge mercenaries hired by a tech billionaire (fictitiously Michael Fassbender) who wants to weaponize the rift.

Villeneuve’s signature tension grips every frame—LA’s skyline warps under crimson storms, a freeway chase flips into zero-G chaos—shot in stark IMAX by Greig Fraser, whose lens turns urban sprawl into an alien nightmare. Washington’s Kane is a man of quiet fury, his gravelly monologues cutting through Hans Zimmer’s throbbing score, while Gadot’s Voss leaps from choppers and cracks skulls with lethal grace, their chemistry a taut dance of trust and doubt. The rift’s effects—cars levitating, clocks melting—culminate in a station showdown where Kane confronts a mirrored self, X users already buzzing about “Denzel vs. Denzel.” Fassbender’s cold ambition adds a corporate chill, his drones swarming like locusts.