The Meg is back, and he has brought his little friends! It has been five years since Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) fought the Meg. In the intervening years, he married Suyin, Suyin died, and he is now the single father of teenaged Meiying (Sophia Cai). He has also taken up the fight against oceanic polluters, performing wildly dangerous feats to provide proof to the authorities. With his good guy character firmly established, the story can begin. There is a captive Meg in a grand enclosure. To make things more interesting, it has birthed several more Megs. Yeah, it's fine, because they are training them.
Of course, going to the trench where the Meg was found is routine these days. However, on this particular trip, the submariners discovered a secret mining operation! Secret! Sure. The miners are not at all happy about this and set about killing Jonas' submariners. Inevitably, the minisubs are rendered useless and the reduced number of submariners must walk to the mine. So, they had suits that would withstand this pressure? Okay, fine. They manage to infiltrate the mine but are trapped. To save the day, Jonas swims from an airlock to another airlock. No suit! He's just that tough. Sigh.
When the surviving submariners return to the surface, they must face armed mercenaries as they race toward the mainland. Once there, the meg's little friends - doglike dinosaurs who prove quite good at running on land despite millennia spent deep beneath the ocean - charge through a beach resort, killing whomever they catch. Sigh.
Once again, Jonas is called upon to kill the Meg. No, make that three Megs. No problem. He has 4 explosive-tipped hastily-made javelins that he can fling at a Meg while he races around the bay on a Jetski.
The Meg was fun. This is garbage. Clearly, Li Bingbing (Suyin) read the script and asked that her character be killed off. Statham should have gone the same route. Hard pass.
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