By Kevin Ford
Student Reporter
The big late summer blockbuster movie “The Meg” came out two weeks ago. Starring Jason Statham and a supporting cast featuring Ruby Rose and Winston Chao, The Meg is full of deep-water diving and deep-water shark action.
Opening weekend opened big here in Alva. People of all ages were storming the theaters to watch this mega monster movie. Interesting enough, “The Meg” sets the bar bigger than ever before with a pre-historic shark known as the Megalodon shark. Jaws set the bar back in the seventies with a killer Great White Shark and the genre of big loud beasts was born.
“The Meg” brings back the frightening deep waters which have brought fear to the older generations for a long time, only to put a modern spin on things with the biggest shark ever to swim in the ocean. When a research rig discovers a sea of space hidden under the deepest trench in the ocean, an expedition is booked to study the uncharted sub-marine territory. The objective, to show the world that sea floor contains life and resources.
The crew consists of three people. After they discover the sea floor, their radar picks up a signal of something big approaching them, bigger than their sub-marine. The ice is broken, and a rescue mission is in play to save the lives if the crew, only to bring something pre-historic back up to the surface where the hunting grounds are limitless.
“The movie is full of action, it hits you from all sides”. “It felt like the makers ran out of ideas half-way through the movie and kept cramming it with crazy shark moments, I liked it however, it was like a super-Jaws”. Zave Goodrich, a senior, student-athlete at Northwestern commented on what he thought about “The Meg” on opening weekend.
The movie is PG-13 and is approved for a wide audience. The movie became a smash hit at the box office as well, despite getting panned by most critics, racking up over 140 million dollars worldwide on opening weekend.
I Highly recommend movie for sci-fi fans and fans of loud, over the top, B-movie like super creatures.