Post by Marv on Apr 9, 2019 23:48:35 GMT
I remember seeing an interview with Jason Statham I think that said that when they were making the Meg they set out to make the second best shark movie of all time (the first obviously being Jaws)....I think they mighta succeeded.
The flick was a ton of fun from start to finish. An adventure that hardly slows down from sequence to sequence. If there’s one flaw it’s the abundance of shallow character types. I might’ve preferred a smaller cast with just a touch more depth...but the structure of the film doesn’t really rely on character depth anyway. I liked the Jaws like nods before the climactic sequence too. There’s a dog named Pippin, a kid on a raft that asks his mom if he can go in the water, docks being pulled away by the shark...but they were all Asian! I laughed with each reference.
Statham was typical, Rain Wilson was the best support, Hiro from Heroes was in it, haven’t seen that guy in years, the cgi looked ok. Fun popcorn flick!
The flick was a ton of fun from start to finish. An adventure that hardly slows down from sequence to sequence. If there’s one flaw it’s the abundance of shallow character types. I might’ve preferred a smaller cast with just a touch more depth...but the structure of the film doesn’t really rely on character depth anyway. I liked the Jaws like nods before the climactic sequence too. There’s a dog named Pippin, a kid on a raft that asks his mom if he can go in the water, docks being pulled away by the shark...but they were all Asian! I laughed with each reference.
Statham was typical, Rain Wilson was the best support, Hiro from Heroes was in it, haven’t seen that guy in years, the cgi looked ok. Fun popcorn flick!
