The Meg
Jason 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.
- Director:
- Jon Turteltaub ('National Treasure', 'The Kid', 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice')
- Writer:
- Dean GeorgarisJon HoeberErich Hoeber
- Cast:
- Jason StathamBingbing LiWinston ChaoRainn WilsonRuby RoseJessica McNameeRobert TaylorCliff CurtisPage KennedyMasi Oka
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksWhere recent entries into the sharksploitation genre, The Shallows and 47 Meters Down, wrung sweats and jitters from tautly slimmed-down scenarios, The Meg, with its larger cast, budget, international reach (and, of course, prehistoric star), announces itself as an outsized juggernaut to be reckoned with.
Flicks, Luke Buckmaster
flicksThe Meg is the kind of birdbrained B movie that condemns audiences before they’ve walked in the door. Love it and you’re a moron; hate it and you’re a snob. The term ‘guilty pleasure’ is sometimes deployed as a kind of peace offering for filmmakers who never intended to make a ‘good’ movie in the first place, and for audiences who care only about being entertained. In this context fair enough: nobody goes to see a giant shark movie to reflect on the human condition.
Vulture
pressIt 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.
Time Out
pressThe Meg proves only that, at least cinematically speaking, great-white movies may have finally jumped the shark.
The Guardian
pressNot 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.
Stuff
pressA shark movie that's too slow, too talkative and too concerned with being a 'good' film.
Rolling Stone
pressThe 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.
New Zealand Herald
pressSelf-awareness is all well and good in a giant shark movie, but not when it undercuts the tension.
NPR
pressOf all the thrillers made about tender, juicy humans splashing away from ravenous giant sharks, The Meg is undeniably the most recent.
Los Angeles Times
pressThe 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.
FilmInk
pressThe kind of arrogant, ostentatious laziness that only a very specific stripe of nine figure film can aspire to…
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksWhere recent entries into the sharksploitation genre, The Shallows and 47 Meters Down, wrung sweats and jitters from tautly slimmed-down scenarios, The Meg, with its larger cast, budget, international reach (and, of course, prehistoric star), announces itself as an outsized juggernaut to be reckoned with.
Flicks, Luke Buckmaster
flicksThe Meg is the kind of birdbrained B movie that condemns audiences before they’ve walked in the door. Love it and you’re a moron; hate it and you’re a snob. The term ‘guilty pleasure’ is sometimes deployed as a kind of peace offering for filmmakers who never intended to make a ‘good’ movie in the first place, and for audiences who care only about being entertained. In this context fair enough: nobody goes to see a giant shark movie to reflect on the human condition.
Vulture
pressIt 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.
Time Out
pressThe Meg proves only that, at least cinematically speaking, great-white movies may have finally jumped the shark.
The Guardian
pressNot 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.
Stuff
pressA shark movie that's too slow, too talkative and too concerned with being a 'good' film.
Rolling Stone
pressThe 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.
New Zealand Herald
pressSelf-awareness is all well and good in a giant shark movie, but not when it undercuts the tension.
NPR
pressOf all the thrillers made about tender, juicy humans splashing away from ravenous giant sharks, The Meg is undeniably the most recent.
Los Angeles Times
pressThe 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.
FilmInk
pressThe kind of arrogant, ostentatious laziness that only a very specific stripe of nine figure film can aspire to…
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