Movie Review: The Meg

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Storyline [1]

In the film, 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 (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below… bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.

[1] STORYLINE SOURCE: HTTPS://WWW.WARNERBROS.COM/MEG


Summary:

An exploration into the sea which accidentally triggered a legend race of creatures into the surface.


SPOILERS AHEAD! AVOID if you don't want to know the details yet


MY REVIEW:
From the start till the end, the pace was quite smooth. Minimal technical lingo throughout which makes the film easy to digest. And there was the storyline of a family which makes me easier to feel for the characters.

Unlike other similar shows where there can be only 1 survivor, casualties in The Meg is to the minimal. It did kill off some characters in almost an instant but that was when the movie was already more than half of the film over.

Scare factor is to the minimal as well so although I did scream, but it was a bit. Overall, a film for almost all ages.


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