2018 · action · sci-fi · horror
The Meg
Directed by Jon Turteltaub1h 53m2018
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Our read: The Meg (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · horror entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- epic-stakes
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“You want deep-sea pulp with a prehistoric shark and Statham calm under pressure.”
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