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| Jason Statham in The Meg (2018) |
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The Meg (2018) poster
The Meg (2018)
A science
research group is studying – on location – the Marianas Trench when they lose
some of their crew to the deep and facing the sea’s biggest threat, namely the
Megalodon. They have zero chance of surviving, until they bring the troubled
diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham, no introduction needed) on board to save the
day.
Based on Steve
Alten’s ultra successful Meg: A Novel of
Deep Terror (1997) – one of the very few books I cherished as a young
reader – the rights of which were already purchased by Disney in the late 1990s
(the project was stuck in development hell until now), and turned into
screenplay form by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber (it was
directed by Jon Turteltaub), this is pure PG-13 fun, so don’t expect too much
violence, as you can get much more of that on any regular SyFy shark movie, but
what you’ll get is a lot more expensive action, with its $130 million. It went
on to gross $530.2 million, so a sequel was inevitable, and we’ll have a look
at that bellow.
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The Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
The Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
Set a decade
after the events of the first film (which was made a mere five years prior to
this sequel), we join Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham, once again) as he fights
organized crime with an emphasis on environmental pollution, until he is
gathered by his old team to fight something literally bigger, a new oceanic
threat.
Featuring
inexplicably – for its massive $139 million budget – bad creature CGI effects,
this sequel directed by Ben Wheatley is bombastic in terms of action, but is
also as shallow as these things can get. It is popcorn entertainment though,
and you can find many worse ways to kill a couple of hours. It grossed a
stunning $397.7 million and discussions about another sequel are already
happening.
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