Shark, Weak: Toothless 'The Meg' Snatches Mediocrity From The Jaws Of Defeat
It's a "somewhat self-aware, mildly sci-fi tinged, numbingly unimaginative watering down ... of a genre landmark, relocated to Asia and aimed squarely at the world's largest movie market: China."
Uneasy lies the wrist that wears the big diver's watch, but Jason Statham never looks especially perturbed in The Meg, an agreeably daft if disappointingly bloodless sea creature-feature from the auteur who brought you Three Ninjas and Phenomenon — the film that asked us to imagine, What if John Travolta were smart?
Of all the thrillers made about tender, juicy humans splashing away from ravenous giant sharks, is undeniably the most recent. It is to what was was A somewhat self-aware, I found myself wondering if making a movie that is neither bad nor good is the easiest option of all.
