There were many redeeming qualities that gave this movie an aura of adrenaline junky's delight. Unfortunately, there were just as many condemning qualities, counteracting the wow-factor exuded by the surprisingly solid CGI. All in all, I will say the best part of the movie was the CGI. By far not the greatest I have ever seen, but still great enough to make the movie worth seeing for the sole purpose of the scene in which Jason Statham rides the Meg out of the water using a knife as a handle and stabbing the massive beast in the eye with a harpoon. On the other hand, however, the acting in most cases was horrendous. Cheesy dialogue perpetuated by clunky, one-demensional dribble; all of this punctuated by possibly the worst performance of the year (aside from the cast of Slender Man), in Bingbing Li. I hate to harp on it but she ruined ABSOLUTELY EVERY SCENE INCLUDING HER. Conclusively, this movie is worth seeing if you have nothing better to do.

I'm a little confused by the hating but have come to realize there are just people who want to hate on something so they stand out in the crowd. Meh, what ev's. I read this book when it first came out in 1997 and have read eagerly all the sequels that followed it. Many times they announce that it was soon to be a major motion picture, or a made for tv movie and so on and every time it fell apart. When I first heard early this year that this was happening I didn't believe it til I saw the first trailer and bounced in my seat in the theater when I saw it finally. People go to these movies thinking it will be something so spiritually uplifting that it will change your life. This and other movies are simply what they are meant to be, a block buster to entertain you and for you to enjoy, nothing more. When you see Transformers, what you are getting is giant space robots kicking other space robots asses. Nothing more. When you go see a shark movie like this, you are getting a shark movie that hopefully will entertain you and you will walk out going that was fun. Was this a full on take of the book? not quite. Was it fairly close, mostly. The actors were fun and the movie was more than enjoyable. Yes there has been some griping recently from actors and the makers saying they wanted to go for a bloodier version but realized in order to be accessible to the masses, they had to tone it down to be PG. When you want to appeal to a broad audience to make money, then you have to unfortunately make some choices. They did and it worked for them as it made more money in it's opening weekend by double than what they predicted. It's fairly hard to make me jump during a movie and this had a couple scenes that made me flinch in surprise so BRAVO for that. I enjoyed it and thought it was a fun summer flick and actually enjoyed the characters and their interactions. I've heard some griping about the Asian actors being put into it to appeal to that demographic, before you say things like that read the source material. That's who they were in the books as well as it does take place in that part of the world. So go with an open mind and expect a fun roller coaster of a ride and know that that's what you will get. This will not be the movie that changes your life, but will make it more fun for a couple hours.

I love shark movies. I did not have big expectations when going to see this but really 2 hours of Jason no time wasted ;) Ended up enjoying this movie very much. The storyline was really good and the acting fabulous. Just the right about of suspence and fun.

. . . extinct for two million years, and Arch Demons for at least that long. However, the filmmakers at the always eponymous Warner Bros. use THE MEG to warn us that both of these assumptions are likely fallacies. Just as a man-made thermal updraft allows a couple of megs to escape the methane barrier imprisoning them for eons, Warner seems to be suggesting that the Devil's Disciples toiling for the Kremlin's Red Commie KGB have unleashed the noxious hot air of a vicious buffoon to resurrect Lucifer from the Gates of Hell to preside in America's once Hallowed Oval Office. By depicting "Jonas Taylor" as initially stymied in his attempts to eradicate the monsters chewing up his friends, Warner's allegory warns us that it will be very difficult to impeach a Game-Show-Host-in-Chief just because he's Possessed by Satan. Is Warner literally prescribing depth charges and heavy artillery to deal with this current threat to the USA's very survival? That's a tough one to answer for those lacking the time to watch Shark Week. In any event, Citizens should be thankful that Warner is helping us through our current travails with THE MEG.