Meg 2: The Trench Movie Review

EVEN THE WACKY FINAL ACT CAN'T SALVAGE THIS SHIPWRECK OF A FILM

- AVINASH RAMACHANDRAN

LET'S be honest. We don't walk into Meg 2 expecting the plot to blow us out of the water. We want those Megalodons to chomp their way through some wooden decks, steel ships, and calcium-rich bones. And of course, we hope Jason Statham finds a way to one-up punching a prehistoric shark. Of course, Meg 2 The Trench has all of this, but it cramps them all to a fantastically bonkers last half hour that just about manages to wake us up from an exposition-induced slumber.

A few years after Statham's Jonas Taylor last punched a Megalodon back to its time period, he is now an ocean conservationist who doesn't shy away from drop-kicking sailors who dump toxic waste into the sea. These might seem like just another reason to showcase Statham's suave stunt skills. But there is a nice tie-up with a primary plot point later in the film that made me appreciate the writing of the film.