The Meg (2018)

The Meg (2018)

3/10

Starring

Jason Statham

Li Bingbing

Rainn Wilson

Ruby Rose

Directed by Jon Turteltaub

Here’s a movie with a marketing campaign that was anything but small-scale. We all knew about its production and release. My belief that overly aggressive marketing often hides something came true when I finally saw this movie.
The movie isn’t spectacular, it isn’t amazing, and it’s just an overly glorified B-movie that you can easily go through life without watching.

I learned a new word: Megalodon. It’s a type of shark that existed millions of years ago.
The Meg is based on this prehistoric creature and is adapted from the book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten. The movie isn’t spectacular, and it’s not very inviting, with long delays before anything happens. To be honest, it feels like an expensive B-movie.

The acting was okay, but the delivery could have been more entertaining. The movie is like a roller coaster—sometimes everything is on the rise with some exciting moments, and other times it just drags.

Here’s the plot: During a deep underwater rescue, our lead, Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham), leaves a man behind. He does this because he believes the rescue would have ended with everyone dead instead of just one person.
Fast forward five years, and a billionaire is sponsoring an exploration into the deep ocean. This simple exploration leads to the release of something no one expected—a shark. But not just any shark—a Megalodon.

Add to this some weird moments where everyone in the movie has an emotional breakdown, and the movie keeps going up and down. Aware of the problem, the billionaire and his crew try to stop the Megalodon.
About an hour into the movie, they think they’ve got everything under control—until they discover they have to deal with more than one Megalodon.

Somehow, they make it out of the water safely, but then the billionaire has a stupid idea: he thinks he has enough men and firepower to deal with the problem. This aspect of the movie was predictable and did not add anything to the movie.
Using your wealth of movie knowledge, you can probably guess what happens to him and his plan.

The movie isn’t good, and I can only regret watching it.
It’s directed by Jon Turteltaub, who has had a better career making much better movies than this. This movie is more of a money grab for the studio using the lead actor as a reason for people to go see this movie.