Film

The Meg 3D

Director
Jon Turteltaub
Certificate
12A
Running Time
113 mins

Given his previous screen track record, you’d be unwise to bet against Jason Statham in a smackdown with a giant prehistoric shark.

Potentially the funniest and most entertaining film of the summer, The Meg has a research submersible packed with boffins pootling along the deepest trench in the Pacific when it’s attacked and disabled by a Magalodon – a 75-foot shark, previously thought extinct. Now it’s up to our bullet-headed deep sea rescue diver hero to save the day, presumably by beating seven shades of crap out of the prehistoric beastie. Matters are complicated by the fact that this is something of a grudge match, as the toothy predator and gorblimey action man have sparred previously. Interestingly, The Meg is another of those Chinese-American co-productions, which means it’ll be mostly action with very little dialogue so as to facilitate easy consumption in both nations.

By robin askew, Monday, Aug 6 2018

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