The Meg

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Fun to watch, not "Jaws" but fun enough.

Just turn your brain of and enjoy the ride.

The Meh-g

The problems are that the beach scene didn't have nearly enough death and that tonally it's confused. A few good laughs, a little bit of emotional depth, Statham is fun as per usual. The scene that's in the trailer where the kid sees the Meg close-up is framed/shot so well though... I love it. Ultimately it's almost a GOOD movie, but I'll take it for what it is and will watch the sequel(s).

7.9.18(+)akasyaspacex

Big, goofy fun movie with a good cast.

Jason Statham fights a shark with his bare hands.

The best part of this is the kid's acting. The trailer makes this sound like it's trying to be a parody of itself. Surprise! It's trying to be the next Jaws. It is doing its damnedest to be a proper shark-horror movie and it really doesn't do it well at all.

Yeah my PSI was pretty darn accurate here. This is the very definition of a popcorn flick. Knew that going in, feel that expectation was fulfilled without being expanded upon. I had a fine time. There's enough humour sprinkled throughout that even though it's almost two hours, it didn't strike me as overlong. The 3D was, surprisingly, not completely useless, like 3D normally is. And at least Ruby Rose didn't die. Also, I remember Page Kennedy from Vine. The good old days. Yeah this is fine.

This movie had every shark plot point you can think of. The Asian actors were decent and not too stereotypical; clearly they were pandering to a Chinese audience. The shark's size seemed to keep changing.

It has all the hallmarks of a popcorn flick. Giant shark? Check. Horrible one liners? Check. Jason Statham chasing said giant shark? Check. Frank Sinatra in the trailer? What more do you need.

Jason Statham fights a shark. What more do you want? Ruby Rose? Ok, here you go. I expected to be really dissapointed but... I wasn't. Somehow the movie manages to be really enjoyable. It could have been way dumber. That's a good and a bad argument at the same time. Only the beach scene was completely bad because nothing happend because of rating reasons. But then again, Jason Statham fights a shark. Also, Ruby Rose. I'm on board for this one.

Fun movie, better than I expected.

I admit the last 20-30 minutes were pretty entertaining. Too bad the rest of the film was just a lot of jibber jabber.

Jason Statham vs. Jurassic shark

For the type of movie it is, it's pretty good. I'll call it a big budget B movie. Big, scary sharks. Cheesy dialogue. Stupid CPR scene all too common in this sort of movie. But still fun. Just the way a summer blockbuster that probably came out a month or two too late should be. A bit over 3 stars out of 5.

Fun Summer movie and one of the better shark movies to date.

A competently made monster attack flick that really makes very little sense.

I think it's all about expectations. If one walks into this one expecting anything other than an action movie with an expected twist and Jason Statham being himself, one will be disappointed. But if one takes it as what it is, it delivers: an engaging story, lots of chuckles and smiles, cool action scenes, and the rest of us guys wondering how come our mid-sections can't look like Jason's. I'm glad they left the gore out as it wouldn't have added to the story.

A shark, but bigger. Some of the humour works reasonably well, and Li Bingbing has a cuteness about her, even if she isn’t going to win any acting awards.

The worst thing a bad movie can do is think that it's good.

What a useless piece of shit.

It was watchable. It was cheesy. It had something going for it mainly a huge shark that ate everything and some really stupid one-liners that made me cringe sometimes in a good way. Rainn Wilson was my favorite part of this movie. His modern day douche CEO bravado made me laugh. He definitely had a good share of the cheese one-liners. Statham was himself. He is always such a throwaway good guy. He has no redeeming qualities besides his abs which do make an appearance. It's run but dumb.

the mega shark is a pretty cool monster and some action is decent, but still didn't really mange to fully capture my attention. Statham played the most dude guy on earth with only mediocre drama and comedy

Since I've seen quite a few really bad shark movies, The Meg (2018) was almost good. That doesn't mean it was good good. Just that they make a lot of crappy shark movies these days.

I'd rather see my parents making out

I mean... if you're feeling nostalgic about Deep Blue Sea it's a decent watch...

The Meg finds most it’s runtime to be bare bones and mostly boring. Even when it tries to lean into its cheesy nature, it’s just not very fun. A lot of the dialogue feels very awkward, and most of the characters are written into extreme cliches, even the love interest feels so forced that it forces Statham to try and carry everything. The shark itself is a fun time, but even the lack of gore is distracting to the point this just feels like a watered down 90’s action movie without the fun.

I don’t typically like movies that depict sharks as bad guys, but this movie is so good. I occasionally put it on from time to time. Brownie points for the Finding Nemo reference while he’s swimming.

Proof that you can throw all the money and SFX you want at a crappy script with crappy dialogue, and you still get a crappy movie.

Aggressively stupid writing can be appreciated when it gives rise to a degree of entertainment, intended or otherwise, but there’s no effective humour, suspense or surprises to this big, dumb monster flick; it’s a repetitive, predictable slog that fails to even deliver a single memorable scene or kill, and everyone involved comes out stinking of chum.

The visuals are nice but way too cheesy.

The shark looks goofy but it's fun.

This just barely held my attention long enough for me to think, "it's okay". I did like that Rainn Wilson delivered every line with a half-laugh.

I'm scared to rewatch this looking at all these negative reviews. All I know is I liked it when I saw it back in 2018!!

eng; [meg; the meg]; eine unterwasser-forschungseinrichtung entlässt versehentlich einen riesigen hai in das meer - ein kampf beginnt.; (comedy movie, added with ingredients of action and wohoo-surprise elements);

It's spectacularly dumb, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't entertaining.

The Meg is not completely without entertaining moments but they are only moments. I'm sorry but I just can't look at this CGI-laden mess and call it all that fun when the director is passing off all the crowd-pleasing moments to dozens of faceless animators who have to try to salvage this mess.

They hired a diver to play a diver

I put this on in the hope it would be funny-bad, but it's just bad-bad. The line between intentionally crap B-movie throwbacks like Sharknado and genuine attempts at serious cinema has become so blurred these past few years I have no idea what this is supposed to be, but the one-dimensional characters, cheap effects and terrible, terrible script mean it won't be enjoyed by many. Inexcusably boring too; the repetitive shark chases start to make it feel like you're watching the same scene on loop.

Of course it has major flaw and stupidities, but it does what it has to do - having entertaining shark attacks - well enough.

The meh... Watch Sharknado instead. Its funnier

Enjoyable action flick if you don't think about plot too much.

This was a really bad movie.

In terms of pandering to Chinese investors and family audiences, this movie comes close to the level of Skyscraper, but thankfully it remembers to have some fun along the way. So yeah, Shaw > Hobbs.

Needs better characters and better action scenes.

Watchable, but disposable. Here's to hoping that Turtletaub realizes that '3 Ninjas' (a personal favorite of mine) was the peak of his career and chooses to return to the franchise for some more ninja brilliance.

This is a silly film with a far fetched premise. However overall the movie works. There are plenty of exciting scenes that make up for the shortcomings of the script. The actors do a good job with the silly material.

what the hell

I managed to watch this movie in a single sitting, which is a feat worth noting. Jason Statham couldn't redeem a bad script and cast in a boring, unscary movie about a prehistoric shark

Basically a Syfy monster movie but with good CGI and slightly better acting. Not enough people were eaten.

Statham – check, Sci-fi elements – check, Silly entertainment – check.

I'm a sucker for crap like this. It's exactly what you might expect from a shark movie, dumb plot, dumber characters and implausible action sequences; it's got the works! It's not a good film by any stretch but know what you're getting into and just enjoy the ride.

"We've opened a superhighway for giant sharks!"

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In a world where underwater technology is SO advanced, but cannot actually tell where the sea bottom is because of a thermo/halocline .. where only 1 person who has attempted such an"impossible" rescue mission can help, only to find some bimbo has already taken herself off to the bottom with a couple of reserve air tanks .. where all you need to do is hold your nose to equalise pressures whilst you drop 11000 metres .. this is unadulterated crap, with no hideous human suffering to make up for it

The Chinese actress is horrific and for a B-grade monster movie, its thrills are few and far between. Watched: 4-May-19

Disappointing at best. It's made in modern times with all the advancements in research, acting, and cinematography yet Jaws of decades ago came out so much better. My SCORING: 99-96=Great; 95-90=Very good; 89-85=Good; 84-80=So-so; 79-70=Boring; Below 70=Forget it.

Statham scored some money with this but actually, this movie isn't one to be proud of. You can't say he did something wrong or even that filming or directing is bad, but this is just poorly written.