Movie Review: The Meg

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.

Day 4 BKK (Don Muang International Airport) > SG

The last day of our trip. Did nothing much except lazing in the hotel and then check out of the hotel for airport.

Our flight was 3.50pm (Thailand time) and we started out journey @ 12.30pm as we were worried about traffic jam on the road but there wasn't. Traffic was quite smooth as what the hotel receptionist had mentioned.

If you are heading for Don Muang International Airport, please be prepared for the crowd! We were shocked by the long queue to the immigration counter. Took about 40 minutes to clear the immigration counter.

Our friend went to another the BKK international airport and it was a breeze for him.

There are shops at the airport for last minute shopping but the pricing is much higher as compared to the shopping mall.

Smooth flight back to Singapore via Scoot (Tiger Air).

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Hotel Review

Stayed @ Citin Pratunam Hotel Bangkok by Compass Hospitality

The room 

1. Value for money. Less than SGD$50 a night (without breakfast)

2. Hotel room is better than expected: Room was clean and neat. One of the few hotel that has minimal (almost no) cigarette smoke smell in the room. There were toiletries (No comb though), coffee powder, tea bags, 2 bottles of drinking waters, a small electric kettle, hair dryer, safe deposit box etc. 

3. Hotel Bathroom: The bathroom rain shower seemed to be given minimal maintenance with limited hot water. Aside from that, everything was great. 

4. Easy access to food, market, shopping mall and hiring drivers. 
-> Food and markets: Right outside the hotel are lanes and lanes of food stalls, restaurants and markets. 
-> Shopping mall: There are plenty of shopping malls around. But to get to BIG C or Central World, it will take around 15 minutes or longer walk if you aren't familiar with the location to the shopping mall.
-> Drivers: Tuk tuk, taxi and tour drivers are readily available along the streets right outside of the hotel. 

5.Hotel Service Staffs: There were some communication barriers but staffs were overall attentive and responsive with our requests. 

6. Getting to hotel via train: The route from train to hotel can be tricky. Need to walk through a train path after alighting from Ratchaprarop Station and cut into a small alley which cannot be seen from far. For those dragging heavy/many luggage, take note it might be difficult task getting across the train path due to rough stones on the track.

7. Two buildings: One is the Main building with check-in counter while the other building were 2 mins away on the opposite lane where hotel guests had breakfast at the lobby in the morning. I was given a room at the 2nd building. Seemed liked no one guarded the lobby and anyone can enter the 2nd building hotel. The lift was supposedly operated via hotel room card to access the different levels BUT one of the lift seemed to allow access without the hotel room card. A bit concern on the security issues.

8. Minimal Noise: Not much noise during the night. Could be due to my room was on higher floor at the other building further from the busier streets, so it was quite peaceful in the night.