I Watch Films: The Meg
There’s a deep trench under the ocean with a temperature inversion above it that keeps it cut off from the rest of the world. A billionaire’s deep sea investigation team go down to have a look. Things go wrong and disgraced undersea rescue expert Jason Statham, playing Jason Statham, is recruited to help.
There’s a giant shark (Megalodon). The film starts starts off with a lot of tight and claustrophobic underwater scenes, but doesn’t want to commit to it, with brightly lit see-through underwater corridors and Jason Statham’s daylight Thailand home. When, inevitably, the giant shark escapes the abyss the later part of the film has a lot of chasing and fishing on the surface, with wide open seas and skies.
Anyway this is fun, a tense undersea rescue followed by increasingly weird and strange ways to stop the giant shark spectacularly. There’s a couple of twists, nothing groundbreaking or mindbending, but enough to give the film a bit of a push when it’s starting to flag.
Watch This: For a fun adventure film about giant sharks and people trying to stop them
Don’t Watch This: If you want 100 minutes of close, tense underwater paranoia as the film only really has 30 minutes of that
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