Meg 2: The Trench (2023)'s activity

Bad boring lifeless pointless sequel

My principal note about The Meg was that it wasn't crazy enough. Meg 2: The Trench is a little crazier, and it doesn't have much of the lamebrain comedy the original had, but it's still on par with it. Again we have obvious Chinese plug-ins - Wu Jing has recently become China's answer Gerard Butler, starring in various dumb blockbusters laced with shoddy CGl, and he does so here - and the effects are this close to direct-to-streaming schlock (at least some of the time). Statham and some of his old gang are back, this time with a 14-year-old in tow, and visiting the prehistoric world under the thermo-whatever layer, and fighting the people illegally exploiting it as well as the creatures that escape from it (including megs, but of course, not limited to giant sharks). It's big, dumb fun, like a waterpark Fast and Furious, and it doesn't really know about science, whether physics, marine biology or the science of common sense. But neither did the original (and given how derivative it was, I use that word not without some irony). Take a deep breath, enjoy the show, you won't remember much in the morning.

Pure garbage

If You remove fun, tension and Bingbing Li from The Meg, You will get The Meg 2. At least they try to add some fun back with the scene of stealing a helicopter.

- Why there are so many other activities, if I come to see the Meg movie, I want to see some Meg.
- Visual effects are where? At least some interns got some practice.

The meg without much megs... They sure are in the back somewhere but seem to be a detail in the story.

Not bad at all. Final act was exhilarating although it did take some time to get there.