The Meg – Multiple Personality Movie Review

The Meg is the shark movie to top all shark movies. At least, that’s what the filmmakers want audiences to think, when in really it’s a Frankenstein’s monster of other shark movies that really only works as pure camp.Audiences shouldn’t take movies like this seriously. After Jaws, every shark movie is a parody. Even the Jaws sequels were parodies. That’s just how it is now. If there was any doubt about The Meg aiming to be camp, audiences would only have to watch the trailer for it to see that, yes, the filmmakers know its a bad movie and they want audiences to enjoy it because of that.

The film is about a group of scientists that open up a secret, underwater world filled with prehistoric sea life, including a megalodon. Jason Statham, basically playing himself, is the world’s top submarine pilot that gets wrangled into fighting the giant shark and saving humanity. Rainn Wilson, playing an eccentric billionaire paying for the scientific research, is the best thing about the movie as his character adds the true comedic elements to the story.

The movie feels like two halves. The first half covers the scientific research and showcases people in submarines talking over the intercom, which can get boring after a while. However, once the megalodon escapes, all hell breaks loose. The second half then becomes an action-packed blockbuster with the shark crashing into boats, people firing guns and harpoons, and the shark eating people left and right.

Whose Review gives The Meg the overall score of… Deep Blue Jaws. It’s campy and full of the type of sequences audiences would imagine a movie about a giant, prehistoric shark would have. In that sense it’s a success, however there’s just nothing new here. So much so that the first half of the movie feels like Deep Blue Sea and the second half is a ripoff of the Jaws films.

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