Film Review - The Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

The Meg 2: The Trench sees Jason Statham return as Jonas from 2018’s The Meg and this time he and his team are planning to dive into the Trench, a previously unexplored area of the ocean floor but after an illegal mining operation detonates a thermal breach, Megalodon Sharks start swimming through and its up to Jonas and Co to save the day from the giant Sharks.

The Meg 2 is a bit of a mixed bag movie wise, I didn’t hate it per se but I also had issues with it but before I delve into those I will mention what I did like and that is mainly the films action sequences with the various creatures, they are fun to watch and have a snappy pace to them and I was rarely bored while watching the Stath fight the Sharks.

But what did bore me to some extent was the films script which desperately wants to be the new Aliens for a new generation in that you have returning characters, a bigger scope to events, a derelict station and a team struggling to survive before fighting it out in the last act but instead it feels more like the recent Jurassic World movies where those films became so bogged down in near pointless corporate intrigue sideplots that you didn’t have any interest in them at all.

And instead you just wanted a fun 90 to 100 minute The Stath vs The Giant Shark movie where the Giant Sharks run amok and the Stath has to fight them and save the day and countless sea goers from being gobbled up and those moments here are fun but don’t work as well as they should.

And so that was The Meg 2: The Trench and its fun in places and boring in others, 2 and a half out of 5.