2025 Horror Watch - Day 2 - The Meg (2018)

  There's no theme this year.  It's whatever pops up first on whatever streaming service I happen to be running.  Unfortunately, since I now have to pay for my own Hulu account, I lost all the curated recommendations and this was what the new one offered.  Content warning:  dead sea animals (inc. whales :(, sharks, and squid), moderate gore, some dismembered human limbs.

An investigative sub is exploring previously uncharted depths in the Mariana Trench and discover a prehistoric shark that they accidentally release into populated waters.  So they hire Jason Statham to rescue everyone.

I forgot he started out as a professional diver.  Every time he jumped in the water, I was like "damn, that was really clean."  

This is a big dumb action movie, not a horror movie, but it's still pretty entertaining.  It did drag in the middle, because it's trying to do that lull-you-into-a-false-sense-of-security thing, but it mostly just felt like the movie was about to be over and then it just kept going.  I checked and there was still 45 minutes left on the runtime!  

If you like Jason Statham, this is a slam-dunk.  He bounces between charming rogue and steely-eyed hero like he always does, but still has time to give Boyfriend Material vibes to the hot single mom (Bingbing Li) by being nice to her adorable moppet (Shuya Sophia Cai).  It's streaming on Hulu.