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The Meg

2018 Directed by Jon Turteltaub

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A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

Jason Statham Li Bingbing Rainn Wilson Ruby Rose Winston Chao Cliff Curtis Page Kennedy Robert Taylor Jessica McNamee Masi Oka Tawanda Manyimo James Gaylyn Edwin Wright Yoson An Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Tim Wong Shuya Sophia Cai Rob Kipa-Williams Andrew Grainger Dylan Thomas Knight Steven A. Davis Glen Levy Sui Fong Ivy Tsui Jeremy Tannenbaum Mark Trotter Christian Hipolito Leand Macadaan Ismael Ocanago Raymond Vinton Show All…

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Review by IHE ★★ 25

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I burst into tears once the film ends on “Fin”

Basically a 150 million dollar syfy movie.
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 7

Has a big giant shark that eats someone at least every 15 minutes. Self aware and gleefully stupid without a bunch of winking. Pretty much does exactly what it's supposed to.
Review by Lucy ★★★

“that thing is the devil!”

an extra half star because my friends were scared to death and jumping out of their seats every time the biggest shark in known existence somehow snuck up on everyone without being noticed. which happened a lot. she’s sneaky
Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★½ 2

The Life Aquatic with Jason Statham.
Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 1

The first half of The Meg ain’t great. Too much time is wasted on the characters, their connections, and the nitty gritty of ocean-floor rescue operations. Then The Meg returns to the surface, and its title character attacks Jason Statham and his chums (please clap) at their high-tech ocean laboratory. Suddenly the film blossoms into an endearingly silly slasher movie, complete with ludicrous jump scares. (As it turns out, the biggest shark that ever lived is surprisingly good at silently sneaking up on its prey.)

Full review at ScreenCrush.
Review by Demi Adejuyigbe 10

I love a dumb movie. But everything about this movie felt so... uncharmingly dumb? So plastic and poorly made, like a high-budget TV movie made 14 years too late.

Everyone was having a terrific time through the trailers, and then the room fell embarrassingly silent through the beginning in a way that really hit home how little I wanted to be there. So I left about 15-20 minutes in. Oh well. Not for me!

Recent reviews

Review by Luke ★★½

The Meg (short for Megalodon) is a movie about a giant, prehistoric shark which only Jonah (yes, like the bible), played by Jason Statham, can stop. A more apt title for this film would have been The Meh. Which is to be expected when a film’s gone through as much development hell as The Meg has, so for what’s going to make a much more interesting read than my thoughts solely on the film, let’s start at the beginning.

The Meg is based off a 1997 book, Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Allen, and has had quite the journey to screen. Allen discussed the extensive studio productions on and off in an interview with Bloody Disgusting, and…
Review by Ana ★

that was bad soooo bad
Review by frightie ★★★

Cheesy and entertaining at times. Meg itself was cool. Not an entirely bad watch.
Review by Pheleepe ★

To dumb to be scary or serious

Not dumb enough to be the next sharknado
Review by michaelessaf ★½

Brilliant, avant garde, and heady. This gritty white knuckle psychological thriller will have you on the edge of your seat if you can wrap your head around it
Review by x_catra ★★

Again gw gk pernah impressed sama film yg dimana ada Jason Statham nya di situ. Udah lama emang gw gak liat ada film bertemakan hiu. Tp mnrt gw plot nya kinda stupid. Scene action nya pun terlalu lebay dan formula untuk mengembalikan kengerian film hiu itu sendiri hilang, gk serem, to many high tech yg gk da kegunaannya. Jason statham yg selalu datar. Well, gak da yg spesial dr film the meg ini, bahkan megalodon nya tdk dapat menggit yg nonton, gak greget. How i miss Jaw kalau kyk gini mah. Msh jauh.... sangat jauh....
Review by Paul Anthony Cassidy ★★★

Being a big Jaws fan it was inevitable that I'd be intrigued by this.
Of course a movie about the extinct mega-shark that was 'Megalodon' has been on the cards for decades though most concepts have been aborted with the exception of a few low-budget TV-movie efforts that should never have seen the light of day.
Jon Turteltaub finally brings it to life on the big screen though.
Dr Minway Zhang (Winston Chao) oversees the tech-laden, no expense spared sealab "Mana One" which was funded by the Insatiable billionaire Jack Morris (Rainn Wilson) and is the base for a mission to investigate the deepest reaches of the Marianas trench.
The first team to quite literally take the plunge and investigate…
Review by RageCat ★★★½

Thought this had the perfect amount of shark
Review by Caio Belache ★½

omg, you are a group of scientific experts that just discovered one of the largest types of sharks that we believed to be extinct are actually alive. We shall do the most important thing in the brink of this historical scientific moment: give the thing a nickname.

But not just any nickname: a abbreviation of his own name. Yes! We are not lazy!