Get Outta da House Cinema 2023 - Meg 2: The Trench

Back in 2018, a little known new shark film, The Mag landed. In 2023 we get Meg 2: The Trench.

Based on the 1999 novel The Trench by Steve Alten. The sequel to The Meg (2018), brings back Jason Statham, while Page Kennedy (Weeds), Cliff Curtis and Sophia Cai return from the first film. New to the film series Wu Jing, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Skyler Samuels while there is no sign of Ruby Rose anymore. Much like Batwoman!

Like the OG Meg, it follows a group of scientists who must outrun and outswim the titular Megalodons when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. However add in greed and some double crossing scientists, along with Fun Island! It takes a turn for the worse, real quick.

OK back when the OG film was out at the cinema, it was fun, stupid but OK. This was just plain awful. Like literally awful.

Jason Statham went into full blown action star adding in more fighting, insane stunts than I remember from the first film. It felt a little like Fast and Furious on water at times. Particularly at Fun Island.

The film is also very much made for the Chinese market. Which is not surprising as again it was again produced by a Chinese film company.

Meg 2: The Trench is not a good film. After seeing three excellent films back to back. This was a real let down. However the session was near sold out I attended so the heavy marketing campaign is working.

That said the film due to "Barbenheimer" was sent to one of the smaller cinemas.

Look if like me you like a shark film, maybe take on the sequel. However it is nowhere near as fun as the first one. I have a feeling a third film may be on the way. That's after the writers strike however. Well that said this is based on a book series, plus the dialogue is awful so maybe ChatGPT will come up with The Meg 3's script in a super quick turnaround.

Depending on how this week's strikes talks go, films maybe be pulled from release schedules. So as cinema honestly gets back to pre-COVID, event style sales, let's hope the strike doesn't undo all the good work "Barbenheimer" has done to get people back to the cinema. In droves!

In 2023 cinema is back baby! Just not Meg 2: The Trench. 1 Star.