Bigger Sharks to Jump
The Meg 2 and Beanie Bubble
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Jason Statham gets up to a whole lot of wild things in Meg 2, but one moment pushes our imaginations to the limit
Warner Bros.It would seem almost impossible to botch a film pitting Jason Statham against a gargantuan prehistoric shark, and yet that was the only feat accomplished by The Meg, director John Turteltaub’s underwhelming 2018 aquatic monster mash. Nonetheless, with a $530 million global box-office haul, a sequel was preordained, and with English auteur Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field in England, In the Earth) at the helm, Meg 2: The Trench seemed primed to at least surpass its incompetent predece
This sequel has all the ingredients for a super fun, ridiculous B-movie. Why, then, does it mess things up so badly?