The Meg 2 ( meg 2: The Trench )
Release Date | 04-Aug-23(United Kingdom) |
Language | English |
Genre | Adventure, Action, Horror |
Director | Ben Wheatley |
Countries of origin | United states, China |
Writer | Jon Honeber, Erich Hoeber, Dean Georgaries |
Cinematography | Haris Zambarloukos |
Music Director | Harry gregson-Williams |
Production | Apelles Entertainment, China media capital, Flagship Entertainment Group |
Duration | 1hr 56min |
Cast | Jason Statham, Sienna Guillory, Cliff Curtis, Skyler Samuels, Shuya Sophia Cai, Melissanthi Mahut, page, Kennedy, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Jing Wu, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Whoopie Van Raam, Able Wanamakok, Ron Samoorenburg, Billy Clements, Felix Mayr, E,ily Ng,Kenneth Won, Rui Shang, Ricky Bevins, Benny Bareal |
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Movies Review
Anyone hoping for some of Ben Wheatley's exuberant personality and boundary-pushing creativity on display in films like "Kill List" and "On Earth" for his pay-per-view gig directing the sad turd "Meg 2: The Trench" will have to find different cinematic waters to swim in. As much as in his terrible remake of "Rebecca" in 2020, Wheatley usually brings the phones here, and he does it with a rotary landline. At least until the last half hour, when it's finally free to unleash monstrous chaos, this is one of the worst movies of the year, a slow-motion, poorly made monster shark movie that inexplicably launches a giant shark blade at evil. underwater drilling operation. It just doesn't have teeth.
Never really allowed to have the fun streak that he gets from the best acting parts, Jason Statham looks visibly bored this time as Jonas, a diver working deep inside the Zhang Institute, a facility that discovered the continued existence of a prehistoric predator. Megalodon in the first movie. This shows that he kept the research facility even in captivity to study it. Jiuming (unfortunately Wu Jing), the head of the institute, is also convinced that he can train the megalodon, but everything goes wrong when he slips away, and... it's not, this isn't just a shark-escape-attack movie; although you want it so simple.
In the place of the fugitive meg, who escapes hysterically easily while the group is moving on to something else - it is written by Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, and Dean Georgaris sends Jona with his companions to the pit, which they called megalodons, deep into the ocean. home for centuries. In the dark, murky ocean—seriously, Wheatley's answer to recreating underwater photography is only to reverse the descent—they find other megalodons, but they are nothing compared to the bad guys who are also digging in the trenches. it is for wealth. So Jonas and his team stumble upon an illegal operation in the middle of the ocean, which leads to their ship being destroyed. The sequence in which they are forced to walk into the ocean sea facility is one of the worst executed in years. It almost felt real-time.
A few person-less characters get cut or inflated, but mostly the faux tension of Meiying (Sophia Cai), who survived the first film and becomes the main creature Jonah tries to survive. The spoiler is hard to say that Jonas, Jiuming, Meiying, and some others finally make it to the surface, the ease with which the soldiers now fled for reasons I could not adequately explain. They lead to an attraction called Fun Island, and nearly 90 minutes into this mess, "Trench" finally gets a little fun. They lead to an attraction called Fun Island, and nearly 90 minutes into this mess, "Trench" finally gets a little fun. You see the underwater explosions destroyed the temperature shield that had kept things like giant octopuses away from the tourists. Finally, Wheatley and his team can have a little fun, but it's too little too late.
Even the action-heavy final section of "Trench" hardly seems like a production trying to have a good time. How do you make a movie about a jet-skiing Jason Statham throwing harpoons at giant sharks and do it with so little joy? This is strangely inert with none of Wheatley's murky humor or vicious technique with horror. It's almost like he just couldn't do anything interesting when it's R-rated. Cliff Curtis and Page Kennedy develop a wonderful buddy-action-comedy vibe later in that work, but it feels like a different movie from the rest of the action. There's absolutely nothing at stake here - so many people in Jonah's world die at the mere hint of it - and anyone who's ever seen the movie knows who's going to take it to the end.
How do you make a movie about a jet-skiing Jason Statham throwing harpoons at giant sharks and do it with so little joy? This is strangely inert with none of Wheatley's murky humor or vicious technique with horror. It's almost like he just couldn't do anything interesting when it's R-rated. Cliff Curtis and Page Kennedy develop a wonderful buddy-action-comedy vibe later in that work, but it feels like a different movie from the rest of the action. There's absolutely nothing at stake here - so many people in Jonah's world die at the mere hint of it - and anyone who's ever seen the movie knows who's going to take it to the end.
Unfortunately, it is not always a lake. We go to the giant shark movies knowing that Jason Statham is going to save the day. So it becomes about execution instead of originality, and maybe that's why Wheatley falls so flat here. It seems like he can manipulate the narrative to be effective, and when he's forced into a traditional structure like he is here, he can't put his heart into it. He just stops and goes through the motions.
At the beginning of the film, Juming gives a speech about how man is only limited by his imagination. Too bad there's very little of it in the film that followed.
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