Welcome back to my blog. Here’s my recommendation of a movie to check out today and hope you punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” OK, I’m suggesting you hold your nose and experience the horrid mess of “The Meg” with Jason Statham because each June15 (and today is Monday, June 15, 2026) is national Megalodon Day!
FYI … a megalodon was a prehistoric shark of an immense size (larger than a modern Killer Whale). With “The Meg,” you get one of these sharks (and this one appears to be pretty pissed off at just about everything, all the time) coming out of the furthest depths of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
What you don’t get with “The Meg” is a decent film. Basically, you don’t get what can be classified as a film. Just look at this one as an exercise in ignorance.
“The Meg” simply reeks from stereotypes to poor acting (although several Asian actors do solid work – this is a Chinese-financed film) to outright copying of the most legendary of shark flicks.
Sadly, “The Meg” has a foundation of some creativity with the once thought extinct creature being alive in the Mariana Trench and how an entire underwater colony could exist and not having been explored before. I write “sadly” because this spark of creativity was immediately extinguished and never glowed again in the making of the film.
After this opening, “The Meg” spends little time devolving into the worst-of-the-worst in filmmaking as well as an incompetent job of casting with the basically talentless Rainn Wilson getting a meaty role (you’ll get the pun later). I guess the only positive “The Meg” has going for it would be that virtually every stereotype is inflicted on the audience – and few films are bad enough to be at this low level.
I’m not going to go any further with any description of “The Meg,” so, please read my full review (and there are numerous links to it on this post).
So, I say punch your “Ticket to the Movies!” and watch “The Meg” (be sure not to eat lunch or dinner, as you might lose it). “The Meg” is available on the Netflix subscription platform as well as to rent on other streaming services. Don’t worry, you’ll thank me later for the warnings about “The Meg.”
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