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The Meg (film): Bad! I mean really bad

Review by @gooddream · 2821d · of The Meg

I can honestly say that this is the worst movie that I have seen in years. Years. I feel as though i deserve some sort of award for having sat through all of it.

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I'm not going to get into specifics because I couldn't bear to focus that much on this movie. Basically a bunch of researchers are doing some stuff really deep in the ocean and and really proud of themselves for being the first people other than James Cameron to do research at such a massive depth. I think it was 12,000 feet, i don't remember. Anyway, they accidentally stumble upon a massive shark and then accidentally do something to the thermocline in order to allow it to come to the surface and now they have to kill it! before.... well i presume before it wipes out humanity I guess.

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The methods that they use in order to track and kill the "Meg" are increasingly absurd, and of course most of these methods involve the sending of a single person to a position where they have to be rescued by Jason Statham in some capacity or another.

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I don't want to say that this is a direct ripoff of Jaws because that would be far too obvious. What I do think this is, is an actually very clever mix of western stars with Chinese stars in order to attract a Chinese audience at the box office. Well, plenty of USA people went to see it as well but overall the "international" box office was what made this movie make a bunch of money.

Perhaps I am being cruel, but this movie is just completely ridiculous and well, I didn't like it at all. Maybe I am looking at it the wrong way. Perhaps it is meant to be over-the-top in a comedy-type-sense. If that is the case than well, I would give it a few extra points.

You can see all of what is going to happen just in the trailer, but now imagine that Jason Statham is going to have to go on a string of single-handed rescue missions that become more and more absurd as time goes by. That is essentially the movie. Good luck! Points awarded only for CGI, which should be pretty incredible seeing as how they spent nearly 200 million on this turd.

The only good thing that happened was that this little princess was spared (although many others were not)

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3 / 10

Comments · 7

  • @as-abir(45)· 2819d

    Very lolzz

  • @rodneysreviews(53)· 2820d

    Let's hire that martial arts fighting dude, Jason Statham, and give him nothing to realistically fight.

    Let's have a billionaire who invests a billion in a project but has no idea what they're doing till he arrives at the base he financed.

    Let's have said billionaire do some kind of helicopter nonsense mission to cover his tracks that's unnecessarily dumb and obviously a suicide mission.

    Let's have a guy who works on ocean rescue for a living, but hasn't learned how to swim.

    Let's have a mysterious layer of the deep that somehow nothing has ever escaped from, even though we can easily float a submersible in and out of there.

    Let's have some dude swim rapidly to the surface of water from the deep without his ears even popping or any apparent consequences.

    Let's just have Jason Statham say the words "It's a megalodon," and act like that's the coolest line ever written, when he's just stating an effin fact in the world of the movie.

    Let's give Statham supposedly emotional backstories that appear to have no resonance or impact whatsoever on anything.

    Let's have absolutely no characters whatsoever that a sane person could possibly relate to or believe in, let alone like.

    On the other side, there's a good scene where a little girl walks about in an underwater tube and a giant shark looms behind her.

    I guess that last scene really worked, or people just love to forgive Jason Statham anything (including me, I love that guy), cos this movie made way more than predicted.

    I seriously doubt Statham would ever waste his precious remaining life on a sequel though, so expect his brother played by some other dumbass to appear in the sequel.

    What a load of crap. :)

  • @tesaganewton(66)· 2821d

    The story of this movie itself is such a joke, i watched it and there is nothing to remember about this movie most especially of you have watched much better movies of such a kind.

  • @criptoreview(56)· 2821d

    I saw the movie one week ago and was horrible!, to be honest I prefer watch "Sharknado" movies at least I have fun watching them.

  • @chronocrypto(76)· 2821d

    Yea 3/10 sounds about right, such an amazing plot that it could of been 100X better but I guess with some ideas its a bit hard to come to life.

  • @angelica7(76)· 2821d

    I haven't seen her yet, but the shark movie series are my favorites. The picture of the little dog in the water gave me a chill. Good vibe.

  • @tudors(63)· 2821d

    Lol. Let me go check out other reviews, from both moviegoers and fans.