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Meg 2: The Trench

2023

Ben Wheatley

Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Shuya Sophia Cai, Sienna Guillory ...

4.3

7,311

Sci-Fi. Horror. Action Jason Statham and Wu Jing lead a daring research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. Pitted against colossal Megs and relentless environmental plunderers, our heroes must outrun, outsmart, and outswim their merciless predators in a pulse-pounding race against ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A sequel that's more over-the-top but still sounds like it was written by AI"
		Mark Keizer AV Club	"[It] is better than the first film because, while it repeats everything the first film did wrong, it improves on everything it did right"
		Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"A dull sequel that plunges into boredom (...) [It] is an outsized shipwreck with bad CGI and poor writing"
		Caryn James BBC	"A very distant, shabby descendant of 'Jaws', with plenty of leaden dialogue and predictable action (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"This sequel has all the ingredients for a super fun, ridiculous B-movie. Why, then, does it mess things up so badly?"
		Jesse Hassenger Polygon	"[It] drowns in oversized shark-movie silliness"
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s too ridiculous to muster serious scares and too tonally uncertain to convince us that it’s consistently in on the joke. Even as the mindless summer fun for which it’s intended, the overlong movie falls short"
		Brian Lowry CNN	“'The Meg' was agreeably silly (...) 'Meg 2: The Trench' doesn’t overly mess with that formula, but it does muck up the simple strengths of the story with all kinds of unnecessary side plots"
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Wheatley goes full throttle on the B-movie spectacle, packing the nearly two-hour runtime to the gills with aquatic horror madness and nonstop entertainment (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Marco Vito Oddo Collider	"[It] is not much different from the first installment in the franchise, for better and mostly worse"
		Bob Strauss San Francisco Chronicle	"In this summer when one over-the-top and over-the-hill action sequel after another has fallen flat with audiences, perhaps we’re ready for one that invites us to snicker (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Derek Smith Slant	"If your hook is the promise of seeing Statham go mano a mano with prehistoric sea behemoths, then leaning into the ludicrous is the only way to go (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Matt Donato IGN	"[It] is an awful sequel that relies too heavily on copying far better executed genre films, doomed to go down as one of the summer’s biggest disasters"
		Ryan Gilbey The Guardian	"A busy but flavourless bouillabaisse of ideas nicked from 'Jaws', 'Jurassic Park', 'Alien' and 'Sharknado' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"This is one of the dullest films of the year (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		Screendaily	"For a film that sells itself as a popcorn pleasure, The Trench offers little to sink your teeth into"
		Chad Collins Dread Central	"Whether this franchise can sustain the swelling digital carnage remains to be seen, though as an exercise in creature feature excess 'The Trench' delivers (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"It’s passable entertainment but not much more than that"
		Ben Travis Empire	"Despite elements that threaten to drag it down into the depths (...) it delivers solid summer fin. Sorry, fun. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"Jason Statham still stars, and most of the original -survived- cast is back. But the charm isn’t (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Don Kaye Den of Geek	"This is easily Ben Wheatley’s least interesting film (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"You might actually end up cheering for the megalodons. They're more compelling than anything else in this bizarrely convoluted sequel"
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"Tedious sequel is missing original’s bite and gets lost at sea"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"With a blue drink in hand and movie-theater air conditioning blasting like salty sea gusts, there are worse ways to spend an August afternoon"
		Kristy Puchko Mashable	"Some big, mindless entertainment "
		Calum Marsh The New York Times	"This lively sequel to 2018’s somewhat tepid killer-shark blockbuster greatly improves upon its predecessor by getting gorier, funnier and more stylish"
		John Serba Decider	"All is lost, I say"

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