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The Meg

2018

Jon Turteltaub

Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose ...

4.6

17,266

Action. Horror. Sci-Fi When a submersible lies disabled at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, an expert deep sea diver is forced to confront his fears and risk everything on a single question: Could the Carcharodon Megalodon - the largest marine predator that ever existed - still be alive and on the hunt?

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill The Guardian	"Not quite killer, but it’s rare to see a 21st-century blockbuster having this much fun (...) with its own premise (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] wants to be 'Jaws' on steroids. The trouble is, it's neither good enough — nor bad enough (...) The whole thing feels like a copy of a copy"	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Apparently constructed under the assumption that moviegoers’ I.Q. drops precipitously during the summer months (...) 'The Meg' doesn’t seem to know how dumb it is"	NEG
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"'The Meg' isn’t nearly as good (...) as the movie I had imagined in my head. The CGI is mediocre at best (...) But it is ridiculous, cheesy popcorn fun."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Insufficient attention has been paid to more mundane matters such as plotting and casting (...) The film truly does seem mechanically made."	NEG
United States	Scott Weinberg Bloody Disgusting	"Simple, predictable, and often familiar, but hey. Fun is fun (…) I’d probably even line up for a sequel (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Jon Turteltaub’s film is significantly better than recent flavour-free US-China co-productions (...) As trashy cinema goes, it all feels a little too well behaved (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"It features some decidedly uneven CGI, and is low on the edge-of-seat suspense (...) At the same time, it’s a likeable popcorn movie"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"[It] evokes the same simple-minded charms as the monster movies of the 1950s (...) The movie also stumbles occasionally in its efforts to be cute"	NEU
United States	Niles Schwartz Slant	"It's above all else a movie-star vehicle [Statham], and it succeeds on that front (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Turteltaub never gains such confidence in the material to let it go all-out bonkers (...) Sharks deserve better than this."	NEG
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"'The Meg' is very much the delicious slice of August cheese that audiences have been hoping it would be (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Turteltaub’s direction never suggests that it’s motivated by anything except commercial and contractual considerations"	NEG

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