Even though The Meg isn’t the complete shark film that we’ve all wanted, it provides good suspense, great character connections, and allure, resulting in a product that is sincere and amusing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2024

Don’t go into it expecting high art or an Oscar winning script, this is The Stath vs The Meg and the film never strays from that. It ain’t Jaws but it ain’t Sharknado either.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2023

The Meg is an acceptable link in the sharksxplotation chain, recognizing itself as disposable entertainment and knowing its premise isn't the most intelligent but that it's ridiculous enough... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 7, 2023

If you just want a big, dumb movie about a giant shark terrorizing a group of ocean-bound scientists and Jason Statham, you could do a lot worse than The Meg.

| Aug 4, 2023

If a movie is filled with stereotypical characters, a generic plot, and a bunch of incongruencies, at least own it. This is where The Meg fails to deliver. It does not know what it wants to be...

| Original Score: C- | Jul 24, 2023

This movie is purely meant to entertain and it does. It’s exciting, intense, had just the right amount of humor.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 8, 2023

I give the filmmakers credit for not even attempting to hide what they are going for – goofy, preposterous and a whole lot of Jason Statham.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

The overall lack of humor robs the viewer of escapist fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

There is indeed a shark, and there is indeed Jason Statham, and you're already halfway to a movie there so it's not all bad

| Feb 25, 2022

Episode 7: Globalism

| Original Score: 58/100 | Aug 28, 2021

Succeeds because it knows exactly what it is and doesn't try to be more than that.

| Original Score: B | Aug 21, 2021

Its tagline is 'Pleased to eat you.' There is no need for a review. You know exactly what you're getting into here but, because I am paid by the word, here we go.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Despite the rarity of theatrical shark movies, The Meg consistently underwhelms -- even down to its basest slasher film qualities, such as the restrained amount of beachgoer destruction and the high number of survivors at the conclusion.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 7, 2020

The Meg is a trite and stereotypical mess that is often too silly and predictable for its own good.

| Nov 9, 2020

Stay home and watch Jaws instead.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 4, 2020

The Meg makes no effort to try and explain anything which was frustrating to me.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 19, 2020

When it comes to comparing it to the other inhabitants that occupy shark movie waters, The Meg is thankfully more akin to Deep Blue Sea than it is Jaws: The Revenge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2020

Turteltaub plays the premise way straighter than you'd expect, treading water between a serious thriller and a tongue-in-cheek "Sharknado" spoof, never becoming truly great at either.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2020

I was never bored by The Meg -- just constantly underwhelmed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

n outrageous romp about a prehistoric shark that succeeds nicely on its modest terms.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 18, 2020