Meg 2: The Trench review: Jason Statham survives a swim in choppy waters

The follow-up to The Meg is a "very distant, shabby descendant of Jaws", writes Caryn James, with some glimmers of meta wit but also plenty of "leaden dialog...

It's a clumsy action movie with the occasional spurt of fun monster conflict amidst a sea of flat characters and a tiresome plot of corporate espionage.

Five years ago, “The Meg” met expectations as a fairly entertaining time-squanderer about huge, prehistoric sharks. The trailers for the sequel (new dire...

“The Meg” was agreeably silly, with a better business plan than a script: A mashup of “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park,” the movie paired Jason Statham ...

Jason Statham stars in Meg 2: The Trench, a giant shark movie scientifically engineered for an August premiere. Read our review here.

Jason Statham is back fighting prehistoric giant sharks, environmental criminals and bad dialogue with plenty of intentional cheesiness. 

Meg 2: The Trench, the sequel to the successful 2018 action-horror hit, is far more conventional than it needs to be, Todd McCarthy writes.

Do we megalodo or megalodon’t?

Jason Statham returns to punch more giant sharks in the waterlogged Meg 2: The Trench.

Jason Statham returns to defend the world from giant, prehistoric sharks in The Meg 2: The Trench, an even-worse thriller that fails to do that premise justice.

Ben Wheatley's "Meg 2: The Trench" is silly, earnest shark carnage and some of the most fun you'll have at the movies this summer.

“The Meg” was agreeably silly, with a better business plan than a script: A mashup of “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park,” the movie paired Jason Statham ...

Jason Statham battles more megalodons in Ben Wheatley's giant shark sequel. Read the Empire review.

The Stath returns in Ben Wheatley's Meg 2

MEG 2: THE TRENCH is the sequel to the very popular THE MEG shark horror movie about a megalodon. Jason Statham still stars. Movie Review >

Director Ben Wheatley goes bigger with this follow-up to the surprise summer 2018 hit, this time teaming Statham with Chinese action star Wu Jing.

Sequel to the blockbuster 2018 film is two thirds boredom, one third aquatic chaos

This time, you might actually end up cheering for the megalodons. They're more compelling than anything else in this bizarrely convoluted sequel.

Review: Meg 2: The Trench has a terrific director in genre favorite Ben Wheatley, but does the movie kick the franchise up a notch?

Austin Cross and LAist film critics review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. They also revisit the box-off...

A returning Jason Statham and an indistinct cast of chompable shark bait battle the prehistoric sea creature in a sequel that eventually finds its wavelength.

Esto es lo que puedes esperar de ‘The Meg 2’, ‘As Bestas’ y más películas nuevas en los cines

Despite a few good gags, ‘Meg 2’ is a waste of Jason Statham and Wu Jing as headliners

Jason Statham and Wu Jing face off against megalodon sharks.

The psychedelic auteur casts himself off from his usual indie fare

This lively sequel to 2018’s somewhat tepid killer-shark blockbuster greatly improves upon its predecessor by getting gorier, funnier and more stylish.

This CGI shark-fest is fun at times, but it’s bogged down by poor effects and poorer writing.

Jason Statham takes a dive in the shallow end

When The Meg was released in 2018, it did strongenough international business to warrant a sequel. Although not entering blockbusterterritory, it crossed the...

This thing just has no teeth.

“The Meg 2: The Trench” loses the benefit of being an off-the-wall big-budget B-movie surprise, and it loses most of the laughs served up by the monster ...

The first movie was fun, so this is a letdown.

Jason Statham stars, Ben Wheatley directs this toothless shark-infested sequel

Our Meg 2: The Trench review looks at the soggy sequel and gets that sinking feeling.

Watching Jason Statham stick it to a prehistoric shark has never been less entertaining

This sequel has all the ingredients for a super fun, ridiculous B-movie. Why, then, does it mess things up so badly?

The summer shark movie should be silly. It should know exactly what it is: a B-movie with a bigger-than-expected budget, a bankable star, and unlimited scene...

Meg 2: The Trench wastes an hour or so before finally delivering what we paid to see: giant, prehistoric sharks eating tourists.

Ben Wheatley's "The Meg" follow-up is an outsized shipwreck with bad CGI and poor writing

Instead of being dumb fun, this is just a drab movie.

This shark attack is less wack.

Jason Statham returns in a sequel that's more over-the-top but still sounds like it was written by AI.

It’s all ridiculous and, in an alternate universe, it might have even been genuinely entertaining.

Fittingly, the sequel arrives dead in the water.