Entry #2: Meg 2 - The big shark movie

     I want to talk about a movie that I recently saw in theatres, Meg 2: The Trench. While I didn't come into the movie expecting much of it, I was shockingly disappointed. I don't usually have a lot of criticism for movies but I left the theatre early because I got so bored of the movie. I am going to talk about some moments that seemed very abnormal and that were definitely not written well at all.

 
  

My very first issue with the movie is how the first intense moment happened. This guy was inside the cage with the megalodon which he said he had a connection to. Everyone in the room had a view into the enclosure of the meg. They all shared their displeasure with swimming with the shark. And unsurprisingly, the giant shark lunged at him. Everyone thought he died but he seemingly teleported to the door of that room not even 5 seconds later. That entire scene seemed very of and extremely unrealistic.

    The way the conflict was introduced was because the Meg escaped the enclosure because it broke through what I assume to be a water filtration system that was conveniently the size of the Megalodon. 

     The story then tries to create the narrative that there is an evil corporation that is mining rare stones from the bottom of the ocean that the main group coincidentally stumbles on while escaping from a large amount of Megs. The bad guys blow up the entire trench because they were discovered? This broke a hole in a layer of clouds in the water that prevented the megs form getting to the mining base. So now the good guys have their submarine destroyed and they have to walk across the ocean bed in these high tech suits to get to the bad guys base underwater because there was a person that mysteriously sabotaged the rescue sub that was in the surface. 

    When I went to watch the movie I expected to see a good movie about Giant sharks. But, Instead I got a terribly written Mystery movie that struggles to even be considered a mystery. There are a ton of moments and dialogue which seemed highly unnatural. It's a movie that I would consider very bad and probably not a great use of time to go watch it. This movie had a $129 Million Budget and it disappointed me greatly.