Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Parkinson-sasquatch-189 There were many redeeming qualities that gave this movie an aura of adrenaline junky's delight. Unfortunately, there were just as many condemning qualities, counteracting the wow-factor exuded by the surprisingly solid CGI. All in all, I will say the best part of the movie was the CGI. By far not the greatest I have ever seen, but still great enough to make the movie worth seeing for the sole purpose of the scene in which Jason Statham rides the Meg out of the water using a knife as a handle and stabbing the massive beast in the eye with a harpoon. On the other hand, however, the acting in most cases was horrendous. Cheesy dialogue perpetuated by clunky, one-demensional dribble; all of this punctuated by possibly the worst performance of the year (aside from the cast of Slender Man), in Bingbing Li. I hate to harp on it but she ruined ABSOLUTELY EVERY SCENE INCLUDING HER. Conclusively, this movie is worth seeing if you have nothing better to do.

barbossapirate Shark thriller movies were first critically recognized after the release of the 1975 masterpiece Jaws. Since then the genre has become a Hollywood favorite among audiences of cinema. Some honorable mentions are The Shallows and 47 Meters Down. While films like these may not be legendary by Hollywood standards (Jaws being the exception), they certainly make for great times at the movies. That being said, films like these are looked down upon for often being impractical in their presentation. If people are expecting to find realism in a film about unusually large sharks menacingly perusing helpless swimmers and sailors on boats they can easily turn over, they are looking for it in the wrong kind of film. Visually this movie is stunning. Megalodon himself is larger than life to the point where he can't fit in the entire projection screen. It's direction and cinematography deserve recognition for the results are jaw dropping, or in Megalodon's case jaw crunching. Like all shark thrillers, this film's suspenseful entertainment value is primarily what it has going for it. Where it unfortunately lacks in introducing a cast of strong characters, it succeeds with providing audiences with enough jump scares and terrifying action sequences to satisfy their expectations. To repeat, any audience viewers hoping to find realism in The Meg's story, action, character decisions or the resolution for that matter, look for it somewhere else. Realism will never exist in these types of creature horror films. Go watch The Meg with a positive state of mind, shut the brain off, enjoy what good it has to offer and what all the people involved in the project intended for it to be from the beginning which is a fun, exciting man vs. prehistoric beast flick that may leave beach visitors and boat travelers hesitant about going back out into the ocean again.

josephbryan-tan It's not easy to create another movie about shark, since we have seen good ones by Steven Spielberg and others. I must give credit to the team who made this film, and it's not living under the shadow of Jaws. It's a different story, and there is some new ideas in it. The CG is quite good, and the movie is entertaining at least. Of course Jason Statham adds some points to it, and Bingbing Li is delightful to look at. It's not perfect, the ending part which happens near a beach doesn't quite make sense. But overall I would say I didn't waste my time buying tickets to watch in the cinema. It was a good 90 mins of entertainment.

bacondar-58965 I'm a little confused by the hating but have come to realize there are just people who want to hate on something so they stand out in the crowd. Meh, what ev's. I read this book when it first came out in 1997 and have read eagerly all the sequels that followed it. Many times they announce that it was soon to be a major motion picture, or a made for tv movie and so on and every time it fell apart. When I first heard early this year that this was happening I didn't believe it til I saw the first trailer and bounced in my seat in the theater when I saw it finally. People go to these movies thinking it will be something so spiritually uplifting that it will change your life. This and other movies are simply what they are meant to be, a block buster to entertain you and for you to enjoy, nothing more. When you see Transformers, what you are getting is giant space robots kicking other space robots asses. Nothing more. When you go see a shark movie like this, you are getting a shark movie that hopefully will entertain you and you will walk out going that was fun. Was this a full on take of the book? not quite. Was it fairly close, mostly. The actors were fun and the movie was more than enjoyable. Yes there has been some griping recently from actors and the makers saying they wanted to go for a bloodier version but realized in order to be accessible to the masses, they had to tone it down to be PG. When you want to appeal to a broad audience to make money, then you have to unfortunately make some choices. They did and it worked for them as it made more money in it's opening weekend by double than what they predicted. It's fairly hard to make me jump during a movie and this had a couple scenes that made me flinch in surprise so BRAVO for that. I enjoyed it and thought it was a fun summer flick and actually enjoyed the characters and their interactions. I've heard some griping about the Asian actors being put into it to appeal to that demographic, before you say things like that read the source material. That's who they were in the books as well as it does take place in that part of the world. So go with an open mind and expect a fun roller coaster of a ride and know that that's what you will get. This will not be the movie that changes your life, but will make it more fun for a couple hours.