Tickles all the funny bones
The Meg4 starsDirector: Jon TurteltaubStars: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn WilsonDuration: 113 minsClass: 12KRS Releasing Ltd
From the dark atmosphere of a rundown, once glorious LA hotel, this week’s second release takes us to the bright sunny sky and deep blue Pacific Ocean a few hundred kilometres off the coast of China. The Meg is one of the most fun popcorn movies of the summer, a welcome and mildly frightening – but also very funny – spawn of the Jaws stable.
The Meg is one of those movies I would advise you to watch having left your brain behind, and just be ready to go with the flow. The premise in itself had me performing an Olympic-worthy eyeroll, but my funny bone had the last laugh because ridiculous though the whole thing is, it is incredibly good fun, a worthwhile investment of two hours of your time.
The Meg, or Megalodon, is a 25-metre-long shark, which experts thought had long become extinct, being prehistoric and all that. But, they are proven wrong when a deep-sea exploration expedition which takes its crew beyond the bottom of the Pacific Ocean disturbs the creature.
It doesn’t take too kindly to the intrusion, and sinks its teeth into the idea of causing...