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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithIf your hook is the promise of seeing Jason Statham go mano a mano with prehistoric sea behemoths, then leaning into the ludicrous is the only way to go.
- 58ColliderMarco Vito OddoColliderMarco Vito OddoIn the end, Meg 2: The Trench is not much different from the first installment in the franchise, for better and mostly worse.
- 58The A.V. ClubMark KeizerThe A.V. ClubMark KeizerIt’s faint, if legitimate, praise to say that The Meg 2: The Trench is better than the first film because, while it repeats everything the first film did wrong, it improves on everything it did right. It lacks the drive, imagination, and sense of awe to work as a pastiche of Aliens, The Abyss, Jaws, and Jurassic Park. But the more fulsomely the movie embraces its big budget, DVD-era silliness, the longer it and the audience are riding the same enjoyably stupid wave.
- 50The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick Schager[Wheatley’s] chaos and madness is of a blandly cartoonish variety, neither serious enough to scare nor outlandish enough to elicit laughs.
- 42IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandYet another seemingly unassailable combination of story and filmmaker that fails to capitalize on any of its obvious promises.
- 40IGNMatt DonatoIGNMatt DonatoMeg 2: The Trench has all the excitement of fishing solo for two hours without a single bite. Wheatley is a shell of himself behind the camera, devoid of personality and originality.
- 20TheWrapTomris LafflyTheWrapTomris LafflyThere is a big difference between a campy film that doesn’t take itself too seriously and one that is just wall-to-wall miscalculated execution. For clarity, “The Trench” is firmly in the second camp.
- 20ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerThe movie is over 90 minutes before the slasher component kicks in — and by that point, I was too bored to find much of anything endearingly silly.
- 20BBCCaryn JamesBBCCaryn JamesWhen a gigantic octopus tentacle reached out of the ocean to grab Meiying, it suddenly made me think of a very good octopus dish at a local restaurant. I wasn't even hungry. It's just that easy to lose interest in anything going on in this movie.