Have you overly found yourself irreflective at work, wishing you could watch the Poseidon Adventure remake, the fifth Die Hard installment, Jurassic Park 3, and a Jaws sequel consecutively, but life just won’t requite you the time? Do I have good news for you! Meg 2: The Trench offers all of these in a 116-minute package. For a bonus we plane have a uncontrived reference to Jaws 2!
Meg 2 runs it when with Jason Statham, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis, and Page Kennedy from The Meg and adds in a few newcomers, including a new douchebag billionaire played by Sienna Guillory. We moreover get 3 new megalodons and plane a mega-giant octopus. The story picks up with our gang of deep-sea divers exploring the thermocline that divides a deep-sea trench full full of prehistoric monsters from the rest of the world. When they encounter flipside meg, rather than follow protocol, the throne of the team decides to follow it into uncharted water. There they discover an unmarked deep sea mining operation, and unconnectedness and desperation ensue.
This marks the mistake of Meg 2 and many sequels of its kind. It confuses why we gleaned enjoyment from the original installment. The creators think we want to spend increasingly time with the notation when they’re not stuff chased virtually by warmed-over sharks. We spend nearly an hour of the movie without the megalodons, and instead we watch the hairdo slowly walk through 25,000-ft waters in hi-tech suits and try to outsmart stray mine operators while attempting to make it when to the surface.
When we finally get virtually to having fun with the uber-sharks, Meg 2 embraces a darker sense of humor than the original. The comedic turn does indulge director Ben Wheatley (2011’s Kill List, 2016’s Free Fire) to have increasingly fun with embellished deaths as the sea creatures are unleashed upon an isolated resort. However, it does steal any notion of tension from the adventure, as we are meant to laugh at how these people are stuff devoured and not worry if our heroes can save them.
The ridiculous whoopee in Meg 2: The Trench flows well enough, and the direction is clear. The vicarial matches the tone of the film, though the performances unelevated the cadre tint are reminiscent of 2000s video games. Ultimately, Meg 2 spends far too much time without the big fish and is never worldly-wise to recapture the fun of the first installment.
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