Ben Wheatley’s new monster movie “Meg 2: The Trench” is about …
you know what? I’m fairly positive most of the people seeking out “Meg 2: The Trench” likely won’t give much thought to what the film is about.
The two “Meg” movies are exploitation cinema par excellence, providing basic, lizard-brain thrills for bloodthirsty summer audiences.
In the first “The Meg,” a massive prehistoric megalodon managed to escape from its deep, deep sea hunting grounds and flee to the surface to munch on bite-sized humans.
Only the overpowering manliness of Jason Statham could keep the shark monster at bay. In “Meg 2,” a group of deep-sea explorers accidentally puncture the warm-water barrier that ordinarily keeps monstrous leviathans at bay, and unwittingly unleashes three megalodons, several octopodes, and a bunch of ravenous lizard monsters.
Once again, Jason Statham has to dispatch the creatures himself, this time aided by martial arts superstar Wu Jing.
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