The Meg

2018 • 113 minuten

Over deze film

Een diepzeestation bemand met een internationaal onderzoeksteam is naar de bodem van de Stille Oceaan gezonken, na een aanval van een enorme haai die eerder als uitgestorven werd beschouwd. De tijd dringt en de ervaren diepzeeduiker Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) wordt gerekruteerd door een visionaire Chinese oceanograaf (Winston Chao) om de bemanning – en de oceaan zelf – te redden van deze gigantische dreiging: Megalodon, een prehistorische haai van meer dan 22 meter lang. Wat niemand weet is dat Taylor jaren geleden hetzelfde angstaanjagende beest tegenkwam. Nu moet hij zijn eigen leven riskeren om de bemanning te redden... waardoor hij opnieuw wordt geconfronteerd met het grootste en geweldigste roofdier aller tijden!

Beoordelingen en reviews

This was terrible. The book was semi ok, like 4 stars. Then china purchased the rights and messed it up. Apart from a dumb story line where everyone is far too intense rather than curious or concerned. Lighting was all bright and everyone was constantly clean. Movement of the camera is panning at all times. Just stand still for one minute. Such a lost opportunity to create something real. Jaws made a monster that had intent. This had no direction.

This is the textbook example of any tension in a movie being decimated by cookie-cutter characters and acting, and every single Shark scene in the movie is so hilariously awful. There's no fear, not only due to the jarring atmosphere that the movie envelopes, but every semblance of logic is thrown out of the window in favor of the movie equivalent of dangling keys in front of a toddler's face to constantly keep them entertained, and as an adaptation of the novel, this is absolutely dreadful.

This movie is one of the most poorly written movies I've ever seen. I can't even keep count of how many times I rolled my eyes. Everything was so predictable. They need him to save these people and OH it's your ex wife (last minute addition?). The childish "he likes her and she likes him" feels like some grade school drama. A scientist fries a firewall to bypass a power outage (what!?) and another hacks Dwight Schrute's location on the spot. The shark was cool though. Bad script.