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It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters when it could be spending it with, you know, the giant shark.
Full reviewJason Statham, Bingbing Li and Winston Chao star in this deep sea monster sci-fi thriller adapted from Steve Alten's New York Times best-seller.
A deep-sea submersible - part of an international undersea observation program - has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li), to save the crew from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon.
LessIt is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters when it could be spending it with, you know, the giant shark.
Full reviewThe Meg proves only that, at least cinematically speaking, great-white movies may have finally jumped the shark.
Full reviewNot quite killer, but it's rare to see a 21st-century blockbuster having this much fun - right through to its sign-off - with its own premise.
Full reviewA shark movie that's too slow, too talkative and too concerned with being a 'good' film.
Full reviewThe Meg ends up being just a high-budget, low-value attempt to sell you a typical tale of a tortured man tracking a monster, composed of spare parts lifted from other films you love.
Full reviewSelf-awareness is all well and good in a giant shark movie, but not when it undercuts the tension.
Full reviewOf all the thrillers made about tender, juicy humans splashing away from ravenous giant sharks, The Meg is undeniably the most recent.
Full reviewThe Meg, stolidly directed by Jon Turteltaub, winds up proving a fairly obvious theory about its chosen sub-genre: the more massive the shark (and the budget), the lighter the scares and the lower the stakes.
Full reviewThe kind of arrogant, ostentatious laziness that only a very specific stripe of nine figure film can aspire to…
Full reviewWe aren’t aware of any way to watch The Meg 3D in Australia. If we’ve got that wrong, please contact us.
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