"Mag 2: Abyss" director Ben Wheatley again tells the story of submariner Jonas Taylor, who gets a job in a prestigious team exploring the underwater depths. Together with his colleagues, he again dives to the depths where basking sharks and other extremely dangerous inhabitants of the seabed live. There they encounter illegal miners of especially valuable metals and enter into battle with them. Not even suspecting that very soon several huge monsters will break free at once, which Taylor and his friends have to stop.
I think each of us at least once faced with a case where nothing special this or that movie when watching does not cause. However, its continuation is launched almost immediately into production. This is exactly the case. This is not to say that the first film was bad. However, this is the case when an abundance of advantages willingly coexist with no fewer disadvantages. The creators of this film obviously did not venture to depart from the proven formula and structurally the continuation turned out to be almost the same as the first film.
It is commendable that in addition to the next huge sharks, the authors of this tape brought to the picture both another kaiju and antagonists in the face of other people. Which definitely brought a dynamic to the narrative. Otherwise, the story turned out to be frankly uneven and, unlike the final act, the rest of the screen time is very limp in terms of events. I can’t help but mention the characters that are quite funny. But they are written in such a way that they simply do not see living people.
The change of director also does not significantly affect the overall quality of this tape. In general, it is surprising that the director of this film was Ben Wheatley, who made a name for himself as a director of authorial horror films. In this case, he apparently worked as a "hired director." Since the style of Wheatley gives only a really spectacularly staged and inspired by horror tapes scene of the battle of heroes with several small dinosaurs on the ocean floor. For the rest, we have a purely production project. But it's not even a bad thing. Of course, the picture lacks some sparkle and the first hour of the film is held quite monotonously. However, all this compensates for the last 40-plus minutes, in which the authors of the picture literally remove the hand brake and give the gas to the dizzying spectacle.
Jason Statham again played his usual role, which plays from one movie to another. Jackie Woo looks much more interesting on his background. Cliff Curtis and other actors got cardboard characters. However, all the actors without exception adequately showed themselves on the screen and they are really nice to watch.
6 out of 10
Meg 2: The Abyss is an unexpected continuation of the not the most magnificent adventure film, which was miraculously saved by the Chinese box office. Structurally, the film repeats the same mistakes as its predecessor. However, there are more potentially positive moments and worthy ideas in this case, and the final 40 minutes with a long scene of confrontation between the main characters and even more kaiju and greedy people look like a hurrah. You should definitely watch the movie once.
Let's face it, the best shark movie is Spielbegre's Jaws. The budget of the picture, as you must remember, was only $ 7 million and grossed in the world as much as $ 470 million. Then followed by sequels that are no longer as popular as the first part. Then came the fashion for shark movies. However, almost all of them turned out to be outright garbage. This category includes Italian films of category Z, which on the Apennines in 1970-1980 riveted in packs, mokbusters Asylum, as well as many other modern thrash films. But there were quite good films about sharks, for example: "Deep Blue Sea" (1999) by Rennie Harlin ("Die Hard 2", "Climb climber"), "Open Sea" (2003), "Meg: Depth Monster" (2018), but in first place for me, respectively, "Jaws". Now let’s talk about the sequel to the first Mega, which is called Meg 2: The Abyss.
The action takes place 8 years after the events of the first part. Jonas Taylor (Statham) and his colleagues plunge to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where millions of years of ecosystem with many creatures, and as it becomes clear, live sharks. But not here it happened, this station is captured by mercenaries illegally mining especially valuable metals. From the moment when the heroes face the bandits, you really feel that they will unite, but I will not retell the whole plot.
Let me explain why I liked this movie as much as the first one. The first reason is pretty simple. Because of Jason Statham. That’s why I watched this movie. He draws even the weakest film with his charisma, and it is pleasant to watch.
The second reason is that the film is somewhat reminiscent of Steven Sommers’s Rise from the Deep (The Mummy (1-2), Van Helsing, which I find underrated. I watched and with some, I don’t know, nostalgia, remember this picture. Of course, there are not sharks, but a hybrid of octopus and worm, and the bandits are the main characters in this picture.
The third reason is high-budget, if it was another low-budget mokbuster and without Statham, I would not watch it. And so this is a high-budget blockbuster with Statham, which is nice to watch, and in which sharks fight dinosaurs and octopuses. All this is in many ways reminiscent of insanity like "Shark against the Pteracuda", "Attack of the three-headed shark", "Mega shark against the Fur shark", etc. But unlike all this low-budget slag, Meg 2: The Abyss looks with a smile, without sarcasm.
From my point of view, Meg 2: The Abyss is amazing. Precisely because the whole consists of ready-made pieces borrowed from the most typical thrash categories 'B' and 'Z' - about the charismatic protagonist, about sharks, about dealing with bandits. Director Ben Wheatley borrowed them lovingly, and I think he even aestheticized them. The main character is charismatic, computer sharks and dinosaurs are made beautifully (which is not often seen in modern cinema) and by cinematic concepts: first dinosaurs, octopuses and sharks fight with each other, and then they are dealt with, which is quite obvious. There wasn't a better movie about a giant beast fight. What are the words worth? Little spoiler. Statham's hero on an island with a detail of the boat says to the approaching shark, "Come on, ugly bastard," and pierces the giant through. It's B-style, brought to real coolness. The bad taste of beauty is boundless. One of the best “thrash” (in this case, not about garbage, but about a kind of movie theater), made for the entire existence of such films. That is, the director, as well as John Turteltaub in the first part, collected all the components of the most insignificant thrash films, returned Jason Statham and made of all this a quite sane and interesting continuation of the dynamic sy-fi-horror action, which turned out to be no worse than the prequel.
I want to say one last thing. What can catch in this film, if it is stupid, and I will answer you, the film treats itself as if, with humor, which, mainly, consists in a parody of other similar films, still attracts the attention of the absurd, which is interesting to watch, and what happens on the screen can cause a smile.
The result is one of the best thrash movies with humor, absurdity, dinosaurs, sharks, and of course with a super-actor in the title role.
8 out of 10
The first film about Jason Statham’s fight with an ancient shark I liked. It was an easy entertaining picture with nice characters, dynamic storytelling and lots of really cool scenes. I expected the same from the second part, but more. Unfortunately, I didn’t even get half of it.
"Meg 2" suffers from stretched timekeeping, stretched at the same time due to completely uninteresting storylines, the main of which is a branch of some mercenaries. Throughout the film, I asked myself what kind of mercenaries they were, where they came from, why the plot needed them, why spend time on them. There are no answers. Instead of fighting the Statham shark with the crew, most of the film is shaking over these mercenaries, and instead of fighting man versus ancient creature, we have a man versus man struggle. And in all this there is no motivation, no sparkle, no color. In a word, it's inept.
Meg 2 really starts in the last forty minutes. And that ending is what the whole movie was supposed to be. Humor, dynamics, drive, ingenuity - all the best in the tape is stuffed in the final forty minutes.
At the same time, this time, Statham's team picked up very weak. Yes, from the original returned as many as three characters, but between the characters somewhere disappeared all the chemistry. Of course, the images in the first movie weren’t well-written – single-line characters, but they were lively, funny, and it was nice to watch them interact. Somehow, that's not there. Whether it was a change of director, or something else.
Verdict: Meg 2 disappointed me. For popcorn blockbuster for once the film came out very stuffy and boring, and to talk about some serious things tape of this kind is simply unable.
Ben Wheatley technically replaced John Turtlethaube as director and shot the sequel to a good film about the megalodon, and it did "so-so" that neither praise nor scold. More like, "nothing."
Blockbusters have rarely been happy lately. Either post-modern kitsch, which says nothing new, or spinal action, which was time to stay in the 90s. Here's Meg 2 from the same opera. Who would be interested in watching this today? I don't understand. Unless I'm paired with dad to once again turn off his head and "cook" with the illogical plot, anti-scientific ending and Statham, who from film to film plays himself. At the same time, you know, the script turned out to be rhythmic and fascinating. Movies are simply not boring to watch. Yes, quite a tolerable plot and approach to the second round, which, although it seems secondary, but bad can not be called. I basically vacuum a movie about sharks, so it’s doubly nice to get acquainted with this segment of films. Except that in depth this work can not. Just a genre entertainment movie, or I see it this way.
Acting jobs are default. Jason came in, earned his shekels and left. I don't know the second and third level hypocrites, do I? Operator work and installation are modern and normal. The sound design is excellent.
As a result, you realize that there is nothing about Mega 2 that is interesting to discuss. Just a movie you just watched. At the same time, I do not want to scold him very much. After all, he got emotional, ate popcorn, drank a seagull, and laughed with those who sat next to him. Yes, there are not enough stars from the sky, but it can be entertaining. Unless, of course, you are a snob quoting an arthouse. Then you have another movie.
Okay, from the film about a super-shark, especially from the sequel to the film about a super-shark in principle, you do not expect anything, so, spinal crafts for the sake of fights and ^W^W special effects.
But it turns out they're going down 7,000 meters. And then the claims to the physics of the world, rescue systems, protocols and so on are revealed in full (I am not only an engineer with a crust, but also remember something from physics to the heap - the son of a submariner, who spent his childhood listening to the great technologies of a bygone civilization).
Okay, forget it. Turn off the brain, relax.
Mmm. Rare earth metals that are already in use, but can only be found at a depth of 7 km Okay. What? Without a spacesuit on hold of breath at that depth? And why did the “villain” let him come to his senses, why didn’t he kill GG before he woke up? .
It's a spinal cord movie! Turn the brain off!
And long ago, nitrate became explosives "not worse than TNT"? Well, okay. But what are these things? Are those deep-blooded little ones? And they're like Amphibians? And they can breathe air, even though they were last on the surface before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction? And even sharp in an unusual environment, like warm-blooded... Uh-uh. Was that Kraken now? .
Who am I telling you to turn off your brain?!
And so is the whole movie.
Well, there's a plus in the movie: Statham does not undress for no reason, as he likes to do to add the film to the audience (apparently, not at the same age and condition, after all, his grandfather is squandering his sixth decade). And Jackie Woo, who takes on Jackie Chan's tricks.
But also a big minus, which turns the whole film from a pile of blunders into a useless, boring pile of blunders. Megalodones, the epitome of epic, super-sharks, for which everything was started... About 70% of the film is missing, and I've even forgotten about it a few times. Try to forget about the shark while watching Jaws. Will it work? And Godzilla (almost anyone)? King Kong? Not working? It's easy here.
About cliché and secondary - not even need to talk. In general, it's expected to be a bad movie, but even worse, it's an unexpectedly boring bad movie.
From such films, stuck between categories B and C, you do not expect anything. You know exactly what you pay for and what you get - the adrenaline from a monster suddenly jumping out of the depths of the ocean, a masculine and pathetic hero who will not get a scratch and an easy love line. But how is it asked from the already unpretentious passing action film were able to make what looks like another craft from Asylum?
The main mistake is the change of director, operator and editor. This changed the vector of history, the logic of the film, its aesthetics.
Despite the fact that the screenwriters remained the same, the success that against the background of "Meg 2", won the prequel of 2018, not their merit, but the merit of the director John Turtletaub, who managed to prove himself in the beginning of 2000-ies "Treasures of the nation", "Starpers", and earlier good fantasy.
And even the beautiful Gregson-Williams, who once wrote an incredibly fabulous soundtrack to the Chronicles of Narnia, etc., only aggravated the situation with the most flat and devoid of subtlety melodies.
While in the first "Meg" managed to keep the focus on sharks - it was fear from the first minute to the last. In the sequel to 2023 from Ben Wheatley, the main enemy is not terrible and unpredictable monsters from the ocean depths, but the corporation, people, consider ocean terrorists. And it's boring.
Yes, after "Meg" the director's path is perceived as 3 steps back. Yes, this is a production project that profites from the good memory of classic action films and such legendary horror films as Jaws. But maybe there's something good left? Sharks.
They are visually still terrible, not chilling blood, namely slightly frightening with their glass black eyes. Instead of two sharks, there are already three, as well as one huge octopus, but the increase in the number of monsters seems to have reduced the number of logical, exciting twists in the plot. For such a number of new characters, you need an appropriate amount of screen time, which is not allocated in the film.
Again, the whole focus is on fighting between good people because they're good and bad, because they're bad. Thank you, but I can just as well open Jason Stetham’s track record and choose any other picture to view.
I came to see the sharks, which will ruthlessly deal right and left with people, and help them in this will be a mutant octopus, who was disturbed and now he is determined to take revenge. The octopus did not have enough graphics and time, and sharks on a leash from the Chinese are killed with one stroke of the hand.
Disappointment, rejection, anger.
An action-packed action movie, where the same familiar megalodon sharks act as the main enemies in the first film. In some scenes, the film feels absolutely implausible, like the last Furious.
Megalodon is the most dangerous predator that has ever lived on Earth.
Pros:
- Humor.
- Great sharks;
- Funny moments.
Cons:
- The film does not pretend to be a story.
Atmosphere: I can’t say that the movie is scary, and it doesn’t look like shark horror movies at all. There's a lot of explosions, action, and a little bit of humor. The film does not reveal anything new about underwater life.
Jonas Taylor is a deep-sea rescuer, after the events of the first part, he continues his activities, working together with researchers of the Mariana Trench. At the next dive, it turns out that the trench is captured by cunning terrorists, we add sharks and other monsters of depth here and get a sample of enemies that will have to fight the entire film. There is no originality in the plot, the entire Jonas film will endure enemies and save the innocent. Nevertheless, the story looks cheerful, and nothing outstanding from it and do not expect.
Actors and Heroes: Jonas is a typical Statham hero - physical strength in half with recklessness. A bit of jokes and brutal humor is present in the image, which, in general, gives him some kind of charm. About the other characters almost nothing can be said – they are not very memorable.
Soundtrack: not memorable, but also not tensing, which gives a small plus to the picture.
Bottom line: in many ways, Meg 2 is like the first movie, instead of two sharks, three. A little more new enemies for the tireless rescuer Jonas, a little more action and a little less sense. At the same time, the film is absolutely not scary and looks like a typical action movie with Statham, here even the terrorists brought a special one for him.
.. And when it seemed that Torreto’s baldness could not be surpassed by anyone, “in each film the same type and therefore beautiful” appeared on the foreground. NO ANYTHING! at an 8-kilometer depth, a helicopter blade holding inside the mouth of a monster (hello to the back of the wrestling and all the same stupid "Fast and Furious") and hunting for prehistoric giant sharks, like a gambling drunk after cockroaches on a seedy factory dorm!
From the point of view of moral or highly cultural... Oh, my God! What am I talking about? It's fucking Statham, and under the patronage of fantasy Chinese! What a movie, what an art! The usual "circus on the dart." . .
But!
Nevertheless. . .
The circus is pretty cool. . .
.. And therefore, whoever you are, and wherever you are - perceive everything on the screen as another attraction of unheard-of fun and pathos, where from one muzzle Statham any creature will go back to where it came from, and by dinner the "angry man" will surely get his cronies all the necessary ingredients for shark stew! So, sit comfortably, and watch for a rather fun and entertaining entertainment from the best TOP films under Coke and popcorn!
What we have this time: a minimum of seriousness; new shark cubs, really pushed into the background; chalk lizards; bad villains; strong pretentious aunts to please feminists; and Maestro Kraken, with the participation of the unfading and uncompromising "big cushion" and creator of this "Show" the main egg-bearer of the planet Earth Jason Statham - as anyone. . .
Of course, the plot is quite simple and simple. Moreover, it is secondary with the first part! At the beginning, introductory data, conversations in laboratories - an introduction to the course of things, as well as a reference to the first tape. Then underwater and deep underwater adventures. Surfacing. Well, as in the old days, a powerful and considerable finale, but already with extras and on paradise beaches. In general, everything as the doctor prescribed ... in the first part!
. . Another thing is that this time it is not so boring, and even more – unrestrainedly active and fun!! And if the first half of the film was still in a leisurely manner, more surprising bottom adventures in the world of “inoma”, then the thrashak in the second half resembled a certain kind of... Sur! Not too much!! It’s gotten to the point where you don’t have time to digest this or that trick or a sudden rush of imagination of the director/Statham/Mega, how you are stuffed with others, and others, and others, and others and so on...! My head is spinning from such an abundance of adventure and stored tricks! .
So, low bow, for this fireworks adventure - this even now you will not see often!
. . Like any mass gum did not escape the film of clichéd "bad" idiots, the same teenage child - always making a couple of drops of elite bald Briton sweat with his restlessness, last-minute rescue, humor from the word absurd, REAL COSMIC Stetham's coolness, as well as the debility of elderly sharks chewing any metallurg in order to chew!
By the way, in my memory, this is the most fun, funny and restless film about sharks... with all their diversity and diversity. . .
Of the famous faces in plus to the bald man Cliff Curtis ('Die Hard 4', 'Spider-Man 2'), yes Paige Kennedy (well, that's if anyone watched the cheerful 'Blue Mountain State').
Concluding... Do you love Statham? Go! You like sharks? Go! Do you like thrashak, clowning, light, summer, dumb movies with shooting corn? Especially go! If all of the above you don’t like... What are you doing here?!!
7 out of 10
For the ultra-hipper-pupper MegaStatham, humor, entertainment, stuffed movement and a slightly more realistically drawn fish than before. .
Gentlemen of filmmakers, well, if you undertook to shoot another empty action movie about basking sharks, then why do you make it so boring?
What do people expect from movies like this? They wait for great sharks that attack and dissolve in the depths of the sea. And for most of the film, the characters do not know where the shark (or sharks) is and what it does.
So basically you need a suspense. Well, he's not here, so why isn't he? Because they know exactly where the sharks are, what they're doing, where they're going and how to fight them. In such cases, there can be no suspense.
And the creators apparently themselves understand this, and so they decided to add other monsters to take not by skill, but by quantity. Here and some regular Kraken, and some nimble teeth resembling something like lizards, and added some evil corporations that are full of thugs.
Well, once this mess of actors mixed it turned out the film "Meg 2: Abyss".
Conclusion: Boring movie. Boring sharks. Boring heroes.
This film is a real gift for everyone who caught the evening air of Ren-TV and TV-3 channels as a child. This is when on Saturday at 9 p.m. he sneaked up to the TV to watch tourists being devoured by saber-toothed tigers, and experiments with growth hormones over spiders ended, apparently unsuccessfully. If at least one of these words gave a pleasant neural echo in the brain, it means "Meg 2" for you.
Director Ben Wheatley, quite respected among the aesthetes of the horror maker, decided to invite the best people of Hollywood to make the most sloppy, superficial, stupid and fun B-Movie movie for big money from a major studio that you can imagine. Those who came here to see a thoughtful plot or a full suspense narrative will definitely leave disappointed. Meg 2 isn't about that at all. This film is about the fact that three Megalodons are cooler than one, and also cool if the film has giant octopuses, sea lizards, terrorists on plastic helicopters and Jason Statham, who saves everyone with his muscles and “vanliners”. After a heavy second act, the action is transferred to a tropical beach, where everyone gathers: sharks, octopuses, Jason, a dog in a swimming suit, evil terrorists, giant sea varans and a black guy with a loaded poisonous bullet Desert Eagle. It seems that here and from the corner will appear Michael Dudikoff riding a giant snake.
Of course, this film has all the sores of modern Hollywood. He is insanely superficial and deliberately stupid. He is oversaturated with action and so eager to entertain that he does not even try to immerse the viewer in the action. The creators are in such a hurry to raise the stakes that they forget that the past has not been added. The only reveal of the character, which the authors resort to is cute and flat jokes to take a breath and immediately run to the next action scene. But if you are ready for non-stop thrash-action, in which all the villains will be eaten by their own “creations”, the characters will save the day and the viewer in the finale will tease that “it’s just fry”, then you will get a true nostalgic pleasure.
For a complete delight-category-B, only R-rating is missing. But even in this way, Meg 2 is the best-worst movie straight out of TV childhood.
"Meg 2: Abyss" - the continuation of the fight of the rescuer-submarine "Jonas Taylor" and the prehistoric shark megalodon authored by director Ben Wheatley.
In the form of background information, it is worth noting that the megalodon is an ancient creature that became extinct more than 3 million years ago, however, the imagination of filmmakers often has no obstacles, and therefore in the present time it is possible to resurrect not only dinosaurs, but also a number of other terrifying predators that once lived on our planet.
Meg 2: The Abyss tells us about incredible dives into the depths of the sea to meet again with various unthinkable animals, as well as inadvertently reveal a group of illegal miners of valuable metals.
The plot of the film is extremely uncomplicated, or rather - simple to such an extent that such anticipation of events can get you bored. "Meg 2: Abyss", fully consistent with its name, absorbs the worst clichés and stereotypes of the existing in the world of cinema, as here you can meet completely empty and template characters who appeared as if out of nowhere and did not contribute anything useful to the development of events, primitive antagonists, weak actors, meaningless dialogue, unrelated plot like indistinct cutting, as well as a terrible mix of different styles and genres. The film resembles the style of almost all unsuccessful action films of the 90s and 00s. If initially Meg: Depth Monster put forward weak rights to some degree of science fiction in the plot, then there is nothing like this in the sequel, this story is a complete mess and chaos even for a B film, here you can see literally all the monsters that have had a resounding success in the cinema: a Tyrannosaurus, frightening killer sharks in the spirit of Jaws and even a certain Kraken, who are very dubiously working in such a close team. At the same time, even despite such an abundance of monsters, they are acutely lacking in the process of viewing, because not only the creation of oceanic depths, but also insidious miners of metals unknown to science, take part in the competition for the championship, and as a result, both topics remain undisclosed and are in limbo. In general, looking at the truth, it is worth admitting that this picture, with all the wealth of choice, can safely top the list of the worst films of this year.
Jason Statham is firmly embedded in the one-sided roles of various saviors, whether mechanics, carriers, defenders, rescuers, or even plumbers, but this does not change the essence of either the roles or his games. The actor acts as if by some imaginary protocol, which clearly prescribes the course of his actions for each individual story: event, incident, defense and miraculous salvation. I can’t blame him for his choice of genre and similar roles, but for some reason I always expect something more from his abilities as an actor. In general, against the background of other castes, he still has quite a winning position, since the cast of actors is horrified by their talents.
"Meg 2: The Abyss" is some utterly ridiculous event that I would have marked as a waste of two hours of time that should have been devoted to something more exciting and interesting. As a result, I can not determine what was the intention of the creators of this project, what they sought to display and what morality should be taken after viewing.
4 out of 10
But in this case, I don’t know where else. Meg 2 is both a bad movie with Statham (all of his Plumbers, Mechanics and other revengeful pizza deliverers - pick the worst), a very bad comedy action movie by Jackie Chan without Jackie Chan himself (here too take any of his unsuccessful run to Hollywood at the beginning of the zeros), and an absolutely scriptless clip clip cut by the novice clipmaker. And all this in the retelling of a fifth-grader who skipped literature lessons.
No suspense, no drama, no sane action, no logic, no sense. Kaleidoscopic skirmishes of unrelated events, primitive dialogues, very bad acting of actors (here it is difficult to blame them, yes), very bad special effects and graphics, the minimum of the monsters themselves - they simply do not exist. The advertised new critter generally has God give if minutes and a half screen time even for spare parts. The main villains in the movie about basking sharks are people from the evil corporation who directly say “We will rob your ocean and we will not be for it!”, only the villainous laugh of Doctor Evil is missing. And the result of their actions does not follow any conclusion, even the eternal South Park “Today we understood a lot” is not.
How do you judge that? No way. It's garbage. From start to finish. You can watch it either if you are eight years old (and there are no screamers or blood in the movies), or a very drunken group of friends just because you can look at the wall, it will be fun. The rest of the film is contraindicated. This is a pointless and sometimes harmful waste of almost two hours of life.
We’ve dropped out of the media space so much in recent bitter years (hurrah?) that we missed the news of the director of the sudden sequel to a box office hit far back in 2018 with one of the coolest bald swings in the title role. It was surprising that not a sequel, but the appearance in the director’s chair of Ben Wheatley, which was not expected. Quite an original director with very good projects in filmography slid to the shooting of the second part of the film category B. But remembering his last film, In the Ground, everything becomes clear. At 50, hope for something more is probably too late. You have to shoot a typical Jason Statham, against whom even prehistoric monsters can not find reception.
What does Meg 2: The Abyss mean? First, "The Abyss" in the title is the hard name of a Chinese explorer on the part of the good guys with Jason Statham at the head, which his father gave him. The man grew up, understood his purpose and decided to explore the wonderful underwater world. If you think we're serious or not, look at the Movie. Secondly, in the film about terrible megalodons, there are criminally, cruelly few ... megalodons themselves. In the first part of the story, the wet monster is shown as a pet as if by chance. In the second part of the carcass becomes more, but they are constantly on the side smoking, while powerful people solve their pressing problems related to betrayal, money, intrigue. In the end, everything is in place.
Ben Wheatley and the radiant writers are more interested in the adult relationships between human characters, such as funny dialogues between them, studying their characters in extreme situations, which makes the two-hour timekeeping seem too much. This miracle is sprinkled in feathers by Chinese philosophy, Chinese extras (and Chinese money, what to hide). Meg 2: The Abyss shows that at first bipeds, as they know how to love well, will turn things down the water, in order to finally dissipate the consequences of their actions already from above on the surface of the earth. In places it is funny, interesting and spectacular. At least we can forget about Barbingheimer. No more foot in Hainan.
Unfortunately, nothing worthwhile from that seed under the water, when from the hole in the fault after the explosion emerges a grandiose something, does not work. In the end, you sit and wait for a magnificent mess featuring megalodons and another kaiju from the depths, but the action boils down to a parochial fight of sharks with an invulnerable, sweet Carrier who fired the makeup artist so that he did not draw bruises, scratches, fingals on his face. As an advertisement for visiting places of entertainment in the swimming season, the creation of Ben Wheatley succeeded. But the big-budget remake of Two Million Years Later is disappointingly not. The Ting Tings' "That's Not My Name" It'll do for once. Be brave.
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