A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 6 nominations
Bingbing Li
- Suyin
- (as Li Bingbing)
Shuya Sophia Cai
- Meiying
- (as Sophia Cai)
Hongmei Mai
- Mother
- (as Mai Hongmei)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn real life, Jason Statham is extremely comfortable in the water. He was a competitive diver, competing in Olympic trials in 1985 and representing England in the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
- GoofsOwing to the general lack of sunlight at deeper sea levels, the Meg should realistically not be able to see at all as it surfaces, since the greater volume of light up there is much more overwhelming than what it's been accustomed to for millions of years. The book gets this right and has the important reoccurring plot-point that the Meg only surfaces at night because the sunlight hurts its eyes.
- Quotes
Jonas Taylor: [to himself while swimming out to the shark] Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...
- Crazy creditsIn the closing credits, the credits are seen sinking into the water.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Honest Trailers: Deep Blue Sea (2018)
- SoundtracksMickey
Written by Mike Chapman (as Michael Donald Chapman) and Nicky Chinn (as Nicholas Barry Chinn)
Performed by Pim
Courtesy of CAPP Records, Inc. / NOMA Music
Featured review
The Meg: Big, shiney, meh
I haven't read the books but I've heard good things and also that this makes an absolute mockery of them all sadly.
A US/China collaboration The Meg is big flashy CGI laden stuff, but does it actually have even a degree of substance? Kind of.
Starring Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, Rainn Wilson & Bingbing Li I can only assume that the Chinese studio just took a step back and let the US one do most of the work as this is big over the top Hollywood tripe at it's tripiest.
It tells the story of a state of the art research base who discover that a trench may in fact be deeper than first believed. Venturing down to find out they discover a prehistoric Megalodon that isn't all too friendly. Cue lots of cgi, shark movie cliches and terrible acting from Statham, but don't worry ladies he gets his top off.
The Meg creators clearly watched the Scyfy channels entire back catalogue of shark movies because it actually manages to suffer with many of their crazy logistics. Like how an enormous shark manages to sneak up on people in water too shallow for it even to be in!
Again this is Hollywood so it all looks shiny, it cost a fortune to make but it's as deep as a puddle. One notable thing is though that the cgi isn't as good as the budget would suggest, in fact in places I have to say it's really quite shoddy. That's unforgivable considering how much this thing cost to make! And the PG violence for a shark movie, well that's just dumb.
And that pretty much underlines The Meg, dumb. Big, dumb, stupid, predictable, cliched, Hollywood tosh.
The Good:
Ruby Rose, Rainn Wilson & Bingbing Li
Has its moments
The Bad:
Jason Statham
A few silly factors
SFX weaker than required
Too many animal deaths
Ending is dumb, like really really dumb
A US/China collaboration The Meg is big flashy CGI laden stuff, but does it actually have even a degree of substance? Kind of.
Starring Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, Rainn Wilson & Bingbing Li I can only assume that the Chinese studio just took a step back and let the US one do most of the work as this is big over the top Hollywood tripe at it's tripiest.
It tells the story of a state of the art research base who discover that a trench may in fact be deeper than first believed. Venturing down to find out they discover a prehistoric Megalodon that isn't all too friendly. Cue lots of cgi, shark movie cliches and terrible acting from Statham, but don't worry ladies he gets his top off.
The Meg creators clearly watched the Scyfy channels entire back catalogue of shark movies because it actually manages to suffer with many of their crazy logistics. Like how an enormous shark manages to sneak up on people in water too shallow for it even to be in!
Again this is Hollywood so it all looks shiny, it cost a fortune to make but it's as deep as a puddle. One notable thing is though that the cgi isn't as good as the budget would suggest, in fact in places I have to say it's really quite shoddy. That's unforgivable considering how much this thing cost to make! And the PG violence for a shark movie, well that's just dumb.
And that pretty much underlines The Meg, dumb. Big, dumb, stupid, predictable, cliched, Hollywood tosh.
The Good:
Ruby Rose, Rainn Wilson & Bingbing Li
Has its moments
The Bad:
Jason Statham
A few silly factors
SFX weaker than required
Too many animal deaths
Ending is dumb, like really really dumb
- Platypuschow
- Mar 17, 2019
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Megalodón
- Filming locations
- Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand(on-water scenes)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $130,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $145,522,784
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $45,402,195
- Aug 12, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $529,338,515
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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