This giant shark tale simply lacks bite

Jason Statham fights a gigantic prehistoric shark in John Turteltaub's "The Meg." It's big and dumb and a little fun.

Discerning genre geeks face a weird dilemma when it comes to shark movies: basically, Jaws is one of the best movies ever made (obviously) and the basic conc...

Have sharks jumped the Fonzie? Seems like it’s always Shark Week around here, and “here” means everywhere. Think of how long it has been since the firs...

★★★☆☆ Loosely based on a series of trash sci-fi horror novels, The Meg surges into as many multiplexes as it can muster this weekend hoping to o...

Statham meets shark in this bombastic, science-heavy riff on Jaws, and they make a real splash together.

'Jaws' it ain't, but this shark flick is entertaining enough for the dog days of summer

‘The Meg’ review: Jason Statham battles giant shark in this cheerfully old-fashioned, 1950s-style monster movie

Jason Statham fights a giant prehistoric shark. Read the Empire review.

Jason Statham's The Meg is ridiculous, but also the shark movie you want it to be: EW review

The Meg is one to laugh at rather than with. Instantly forgettable, but undeniably fun

Jason Statham headlines 'The Meg,' Jon Turteltaub's thriller about an international team trying to prevent a giant prehistoric shark from terrorizing an Asia...

Statham does what he can to salvage this cartoonish marine showdown, but Jon Turteltaub can't resolve two very different tones.

Jason Statham battles a gigantic prehistoric shark that turns out not to be prehistoric in 'The Meg.'

Film review: It’s fun, but neither good fun or bad fun, it just flounders in between

Should you see “The Meg”? The movie itself seems a little doubtful, frankly.

Less "Sharknado," more 1950s giant monster fun, all predicaments in "The Meg" are answered with a fistful of Statham.

Jason Statham battles bite-sized dialogue and finger-puppet characters in this nonsensical monster-shark movie.

‘The Meg’ is an old-fashioned monster hunt movie souped up with CGI. It’s shallow, and it revels in it, which means you can too.

In a way, I feel like the victim of a bait-and-switchscheme.  The movie I saw isn’t the oneadvertised in the trailers. As marketed, TheMeg looks like a br...

As a vehicle for painlessly killing a few brain cells during the waning days of summer, it gets the job done.

For the love of God, SOMEbody say “We’re going to need a bigger boat!” Because there’s no shame in quoting a line from THE shark movie when you’re ...

'The Meg' pits Jason Statham against a giant prehistoric shark — and good lord, does this blockbuster need a bigger boat. Our review.

Aggressively dumb summer fun that sets out to offer something for everyone, and winds up giving nothing much to anyone. A complete list of ingredients would ...

This really might be the best movie ever made about Jason Statham doing battle with a prehistoric giant shark. (Maybe. There might be others we’re forgetti...

Jason Statham dives in at the deep end for a man-vs-shark update

In any film staking a claim to so-bad-it’s-good status, but stuck in the badlands between the unwatchably appalling and the rivetingly atrocious, there com...

If there's any sense of menace in The Meg, it lies in the prospect that many more such films may be on the way.

Ever since Steven Spielberg set foot on the beach, directors have been attempting to recapture a similar level of thrills and artistry in the shark movie, us...

Jason Statham stars as a rescue diver on the skids who has redemption thrust upon him while trying to deal with a colossal shark

Even Jason Statham can’t save the shark-driven film from itself

This monster-shark movie delivers a handful of decent PG-13 scares, but the characters are just chum

Statham is in on the fun

If you see one movie about Jason Statham fighting a giant shark this summer, make it ’The Meg.’

One of summer’s last big movies fails to deliver.

Jason Statham leads a giant-shark thriller that wants to be 'Jaws' on steroids. The trouble is, it's neither good enough — nor bad enough.

It’s the Platonic ideal of a summer movie, but not in a good way.

They shoot giant sharks, don’t they?

The Meg delivers the Statham-versus-giant-shark battle moviegoers are promised, but does so in a way that still manages to be underwhelming.