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Meg 2: the Trench

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Meg 2: the Trench

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Underwater rescue expert Jonas Taylor leads a research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. However, a greedy mining operation threatens the team's safety and unleashes a school of voracious 75ft-long megalodon sharks. Director Ben Wheatley's comedy thriller sequel, starring Jason Statham and Cliff Curtis

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Patrick Cremona

This follow-up to 2018 creature feature The Meg boasts an unlikely director in British film-maker Ben Wheatley, who is better known for horror-inflected indie offerings such as Kill List and Sightseers. Jason Statham returns as deep-sea diver Jonas Taylor, who this time does battle with even more enormous sharks and a plethora of other prehistoric sea beasts. Any hope that Wheatley might bring some of his earthy style to the film is quickly dashed, and the action is fairly generic throughout - even if it's not without a few surface-level pleasures. But Meg 2's main weakness is the slapdash nature of its plotting. Various characters are set up - from ill-defined mercenary villains to returning faces from the first Meg -without ever establishing a sense of momentum, and the result is a film that darts from one scene to another without much tension. Add in some shoddy CGI work and a barrage of clunky lines, and this is a sequel that's easy to forget.

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Cast

rolenameJonas TaylorJason StathamJiuming ZhangWu Jing MeiyingSophia CaiDJPage KennedyMontesSergio Peris-MenchetaJessSkyler SamuelsHilary DriscollSienna GuilloryMacCliff Curtis

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rolenameDirectorBen Wheatley

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros

Released on

2023-08-04

Languages

English | Spanish

Guidance

Violence, swearing

Formats

Colour

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