Film Review: The Meg Plays It Way Too Straight

Halfway through Jason Statham's giant shark movie The Meg, Rainn Wilson, playing the comic relief tech billionaire who has bankrolled a naval research station for, um, reasons, declares a premature victory. The prehistoric shark they accidentally let out of the ocean floor has apparently been neutralized, and they're all finally out of harm's way (they're not, but they don't know that yet). The weary-eyed head scientist (Winston Chao) greets this boast with a sigh followed by a speech about all the friends they've lost to that point and how, worst of all, they've failed science. Science! (This is the same ...