#shuya Sophia cai

[drrav3nb]

In psychology they call that cognitive dissonance. In the real world they call it parenting.

[likeafantasy]

SHARK WEEK 2024 — meg 2: the trench (7/7) dir. ben wheatley

[mistressvera]

Shuya Sophia Cai as Meiying Zhang

Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

[sotangledupinit]

If I had a nickel for every time Jason Statham played a loner who adopted a little girl named Mei, I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened twice.

[kaipanzero]

Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

[stathampolishfan]

Jason Statham and Shuya Sophie Cai in "Meg2. Trench "(2023).

[ultrahpfan5blog]

Meg 2: The Trench - an impressively stupid movie....

I quite enjoyed the first Meg movie. Sure, it did take itself a little more seriously then it needed to and it was plenty cheesy when it wasn't trying to be, but it was overall pretty fun and it knew to make a film titled 'The Meg' to be about the Meg. There were fairly long extended sequences dealing with both Megs. So I was looking forward to Meg 2, and the first trailer seemed to indicate that they knew what tone to hit. Unfortunately, the trailer turned out to be misleading as we instead got a pretty dumb movie which is barely about the monsters.

There are times when I genuinely wonder what writers were thinking when they conceptualize these movies. I mean, it doesn't take a genius to understand that people just want Jason Statham fighting giant sharks or any other monsters they can think of. It isn't that hard. But this film is filled with 2/3 corporate espionage/environment plot which didn't even make much sense, with some seriously annoying villains. Only in the last 1/3 does the movie embrace what the trailer was selling and we get our human heroes fighting the Megs and other monsters. Problem is that it becomes far too chaotic. There are 3 Megs which are difficult to distinguish from each other, human villains, a Kraken, and some Lizard monsters. So it becomes silly in an unintended way. The actual Megs are just kind of plot devices. They are there to cause some destruction and then they are kind of just around in the background as a threat. But they are never the focus. I also found it a little tasteless that the move kills off Suyin between movies. It was really not necessary. I get they want a child character and so they wanted to retain Meiying but they could have come up with another explanation for her not being there. It kind of ruins the romance that was present in the first film. We essentially get a replacement character in Wu Jing's Jiuming, with he and Statham's Taylor essentially co-parenting Meiying.

Additionally, while the first Meg movie was bright and sunny, Meg 2 spends a large part of the movie in darkness, either in an underwater station or in the darkness of the trench. The film only brightens up when the film literally reached a place called 'Fun Island'. Despite the chaos, admittedly, there is enough goofy fun to had in the last act. The cast is generally fine. Statham does his Statham thing as Jonas Taylor. Wu Jing, Cliff Curtis, Page Kennedy, and Shuya Sophia Cai are all likable. Page Kennedy gets in a couple of good laughs, especially relating to his experienced in the first film and the changes he has experienced since. The bond between Jonas and Meiying is sweet. The special effects are largely solid.

Overall, the first 2 acts kind of drag which is why the movie is overall a little disappointing. It shouldn't be that hard to make a movie like this, at least from a story point of view. I would give it a 4.5/10. Watchable largely for the fun l had in the last act.

[gameofthunder66]

'Meg 2: The Trench' (2023) film

-watched 2/10/2024- 2 [1/2] stars- on Max

[cinemaquiles]

Você sabia? O real motivo pelo qual a China foi de vilã para heroína nas produções hollywoodianas!

[kermodefan94-blog]

Meg 2. The Trench. Movie Review.

Forgive this writer’s mild sense of optimism. He assumed the period of mainstream Hollywood getting into bed with Chinese state-sanctioned mega-blockbusters that led to productions like The Great Wall and Transformers: Age of Extention was long over. Chinese blockbusters can now count on small to moderate-size releases in the West. Add to this that in 2018 the original The Meg felt like a…

[jmunneytumbler]

My Second Voyage with The Meg, My First Voyage with the Demeter

My Second Voyage with The Meg, My First Voyage with the Demeter

Meg 2: Dracula Boogaloo (CREDIT: Warner Bros. Pictures/Screenshot; Rainer Bajo/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment) Meg 2: The Trench: Starring: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis, Melissanthi Mahut, Page Kennedy, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Skyler Samuels, Sienna Guillory, Whoopie Van Raam, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Felix Mayr Director: Ben Wheatley Running Time: 116…

[floorman3]

Meg 2: The Trench Review- Mindless Entertainment That Works For What It Is

The Mag came out back in 2018 and what came out of it was that Jason Statham was fighting a giant shark. What most people know was that is what a love of filmgoers were looking for. Mindless entertainment where they didn’t have to think they could just enjoy something crazy and out of control entertainment. It did so well that it spawned a sequel, Meg 2: The Trench, also based on the second novel…

[screenzealots]

"Meg 2: The Trench"

Corny killer shark movies can be a lot of fun (see “Sharknado” and “Deep Blue Sea”), but “The Meg 2” is a needless sequel that’s truly terrible. I don’t even think this crummy summertime catastrophe could have provided a reasonable amount of campy fun even if it tried. By playing the majority of the story with all seriousness and stretching the run time with a tedious and sluggish exposition, it…

[mistressvera]

Shuya Sophia Cai as Meiying and Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor

Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

[realjediverse]

Spoiler Free Meg 2: The Trench Movie Review

Meg 2: The Trench is a 2023 American science fiction action film directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber. A sequel to the 2018 film The Meg, the film stars Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis, Page Kennedy, and Li Bingbing. In the film, Statham reprises his role as Jonas Taylor, who must rescue a research team from a group of giant…

[stathampolishfan]

Jason Statham and Shuya Sophie Cai in "Meg2. Trench " (2023).