A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Jonas Taylor: Jason Statham
• Suyin: Li Bingbing
• Morris: Rainn Wilson
• ‘Mac’: Cliff Curtis
• Jaxx: Ruby Rose
• Heller: Robert Taylor
• The Wall: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
• Lori: Jessica McNamee
• Zhang: Winston Chao
• Meiying: Shuya Sophia Cai
• DJ: Page Kennedy
• Toshi: Masi Oka
• Dive Control Technician: Raymond Vinton
• Mother: Mai Hongmei
• Awesome Kid on Beach: Wei Yi
• Thai Boat Captain: Vithaya Pansringarm
• D’Angelo: Rob Kipa-Williams
• Marks: Tawanda Manyimo
• Injured Sailor: Mark Trotter
• David E. Jordan: James Gaylyn
• Morris’ Lawyer: Andrew Grainger
• Speedboat Crewman: Steven A. Davis
• Speedboat Mercenary: Glen Levy
• Morris’ Helicopter Pilot: Edwin Wright
• Bride: Sui Fong Ivy Tsui
• Groom: Jeremy Tan
• Wedding Photographer: Douglas Lee
• News Camera Operator: Tim Wong
• News Helicopter Pilot: Yoson An
• Dude on Raft: Yao Yao
• Filipino Fisherman #1 (uncredited): Leand Macadaan

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Barrie M. Osborne
• Director of Photography: Tom Stern
• Producer: Colin Wilson
• Production Design: Grant Major
• Casting: Liz Mullane
• Executive Producer: Gerald R. Molen
• Original Music Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
• Casting: Mindy Marin
• Producer: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
• Editor: Steven Kemper
• Supervising Art Director: Kim Sinclair
• Director: Jon Turteltaub
• Hairstylist: Paul Pattison
• Driver: Russell Lloyd
• Screenplay: Dean Georgaris
• Producer: Belle Avery
• Executive In Charge Of Production: Kelley Smith-Wait
• Art Direction: Ken Turner
• Associate Producer: Kenneth Atchity
• Associate Producer: Chi-Li Wong
• Rigging Gaffer: Jamie Couper
• Gaffer: Sean O’Neill
• Second Assistant Director: Betty Fotofili
• Stunts: Stephen Grey
• Screenplay: Erich Hoeber
• Screenplay: Jon Hoeber
• Art Direction: Andy McLaren
• Stunt Coordinator: Allan Poppleton
• First Assistant Director: Hamish McFarlane
• Third Assistant Director: Matt Johnston
• Costume Design: Amanda Neale
• Storyboard Artist: Warren Mahy
• Stunts: Augie Davis
• Executive Producer: Randy Greenberg
• Associate Producer: Tom Hern
• Novel: Steve Alten
• Art Direction: Robert Bavin
• Conceptual Design: Liam Beck
• Music Editor: Peter Oso Snell
• Set Designer: Ross Perkin
• Visual Effects: Sue Rowe
• Art Department Coordinator: Janelle Hope
• Camera Operator: Rob Marsh
• Visual Effects Design Consultant: Rhonda C. Gunner
• Production Coordinator: Andrew Cochrane
• Unit Publicist: Moira Houlihan
• Sound Designer: Jason W. Jennings
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Raymond Chen
• Visual Effects Producer: Steve Garrad
• Second Assistant Director: James Madigan
• Animation Manager: Matthew Shepherd
• Production Manager: Simon Ambridge
• Art Direction: Sam Storey
• Stunts: Shane Dawson
• Dialect Coach: Sarah Shepherd
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Adrian De Wet
• Assistant Costume Designer: Lucy McLay
• Prop Maker: Rose Worley
• Animation Supervisor: Aaron Gilman
• Conceptual Design: Henry Fong
• Casting Assistant: Simon Ward
• Property Master: Tasha Lang
• Set Decoration: Amber Richards
• Hairstylist: Jane O’Kane
• Camera Operator: Ben Rowsell
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Megan Galbraith
• Boom Operator: Adnan Taumoepeau
• Special Effects Coordinator: Karl Chisholm
• Aerial Camera: Peter Beeh
• Lighting Technician: Reuben Morrison
• Boom Operator: Corrin Ellingford
• Executive In Charge Of Production: Cate Adams
• Digital Intermediate: Jeff Pantaleo
• Set Costumer: Sarah Goodhue
• Associate Producer: Jie Chen
• Associate Producer: Chunzi Wang
• Executive Producer: Wayne Wei Jiang
• Executive Producer: Ben Erwei Ji
• First Assistant Director: Maxine Zhang
• First Assistant Director: Joe Nolan
• Third Assistant Director: Laura Hutton
• Casting Assistant: Monique Hoseason
• Third Assistant Director: Jingxuan Chen
• Production Coordinator: Rachael McMahon
• Script Supervisor: Monique Knight
• Production Coordinator: Elizabeth A. Bergman
• Dialect Coach: Helen Ashton
• Transportation Coordinator: Sharon Ninness
• Transportation Co-Captain: Isaac Lane
• Translator: Huai Hsuan Huang
• Assistant Sound Editor: Allegra De Souza
• Location Manager: Peta Sinclair
• Location Manager: Gina Deakin
• Post Production Consulting: Jessica E. Newman
• Assistant Costume Designer: Christina Validakis
• Art Department Coordinator: Rose-Marie Salmon
• Costume Design: Natalija Kucija
• Assistant Costume Designer: Helena Falangus
• Casting Assistant: Sarah Hart
• Animation: Juan Alejandro Gomez
• Casting: Rachel Bullock
• Art Direction: Calvin Tsoi
• Makeup Artist: Kendal Ferguson
• Makeup Supervisor: Michael Krehl
• Executive In Charge Of Production: Chantal Nong Vo
• Set Designer: Zahra Archer
• Set Dresser: Jess Bauer
• Set Designer: Alister Baxter
• Storyboard Artist: Dylan Coburn
• Prop Designer: Mathew Hunkin
• Set Designer: Landon Lott
• Conceptual Design: Robert McKinnon
• Set Designer: Brendon Sweeney
• Conceptual Design: Filippo Valsecchi
• Set Dresser: Gillian West-Walker
• Sound Design Assistant: Katie Paterson
• Special Effects: Trevor Kiely
• Special Effects: Gavin Legge
• Special Effects Supervisor: Phil McLaren
• Camera Operator: Mike Bhana
• Camera Intern: Jonathan Bowes-Onions
• Rigging Grip: Nick Chester
• Rigging Grip: Toby Conway
• Lighting Technician: Oren Graham
• First Assistant Camera: Brenden Holster
• Lighting Technician: Adam Lewando
• Lighting Technician: Luke Ripley
• Underwater Director of Photography: Kina Scollay
• Grip: Ropata Smith-Warren
• Stunts: Tony Marsh
• Stunts: Joshua Randall
• Stunts: Vincent Roxburgh
• Stunts: Joshua Tieu
• Stunts: Beau Weston
• Stunts: Barton Williams
• Stunt Coordinator: Eva Yang
• Digital Effects Producer: Zack Weiler
• Digital Compositors: Divyansh Mittal
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Ben Marks
• Visual Effects: Stephanie Malicdem
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Justin Golden
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Holly Fung
• Visual Effects Coordinator: David Cohan
• Visual Effects: Daniele Chindamo
• Digital Compositors: Daniel Cairnie
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Sara Bold
• VFX Supervisor: John L. Anderson
• VFX Production Coordinator: Matteo Veglia
• Stunts: Dayna Grant
• Stunts: Clint Elvy
• Set Designer: Mark Stephen
• Production Accountant: Veronica Miller
• Stunts: Ashlee Fidow
• Transportation Captain: Aaron Gibson
• Visual Effects Producer: Ana Ramos Dominguez

Movie Reviews:

• Per Gunnar Jonsson: Well, when the credits started to roll I cannot say that I felt it had been a waste of time and money. I did indeed have some enjoyment watching this movie. However, it could have been a lot better.

  For starters, what is the point of making a movie about a bloody “dinosaur shark” and aim for a PG-13 rating? Whoever made that incredibly stupid decision obviously missed the mark big time. I think this was the biggest fault with the movie. There were so many missed opportunities. The entire scene at the beach at the end of the movie was just wasted for example.

  The script was of course somewhat illogical with holes in it large enough to drive a, well, a Megalodon through them. This however was something that I more or less expected given the kind of movie. First of all it is science fiction and fantasy after all and second, it appears that these kind of movies never seem to get anything better than mediocre script writers…at best.

  There were some good things though. I have read the book and I didn’t really like it. In my review I gave it 2 out 5 five stars. The main reason for this was that the book was more of a bad soap opera than a horror/thriller. It was so filled with unlikable, scheming and backstabbing assholes that it was really not enjoyable. Jason’s ex wife was such a despicable bitch that she alone ruined the book for example.

  Luckily the movie had toned down that aspect of the book quite a lot. Actually, in the end, there was really only one truly despicable asshole in the movie and he met with the fate that he deserved thanks to his own stupidity.

  So, I did enjoy the movie and, as a science fiction and fantasy fan, I am glad to have watched it. I mean, a giant pre-historic shark on the big screen does have a certain cool-factor after all. It was somewhat saved by Jason Statham being in it though and it could have been a lot better.

• John Chard: Child friendly horror…

  You have to take in to context the post release statements by director Jon Turteltaub and lead actor Jason Statham. The Meg is not the film they either read on the page or filmed as a course of grisly schlock entertainment. This was meant to be a proper schlocker, a bloodletting monster of the deep on the loose picture, sadly the suits at the helm didn’t see that as a viable money making exercise and had this cut to be a “12” friendly bums on theatre seats cash grabber. Shame on them.

  What we get is a run of the mill creature feature that although once viewed does not leave a lasting impression (was anyone really hoping for that anyway?), but is kind of fun in that time filling sort of way. It runs through the modern day creature feature playbook 101. So off we go with the hero having a troubled backstory, a money made funder out of his depth, ladies with life quandaries, a man who can’t swim working in the middle of the ocean! and on we go. Throw in some quite awfully scripted dialogue and it’s cheese sarnie time.

  Statham is nearly always a good watch – in the muscle bound action hero kind of way – though you see the cracks between what the film was meant to be and what it ended up as. For you see that The Stath comes off as taking it all too seriously, which in this released cut is ridiculous. He’s surrounded by no mark actors, though no short supply of beauty (Bingbing Li socko gorgeous/Ruby Rose hard sexy) and the narrative feeds us all the pointers of exactly where this will end up. There’s a couple of nifty fun homages to Jaws, some decent suspense scenes, and the cinematography (Tom Stern) is pin sharp and pleasurable.

  Best bet to enjoy this is to know it’s a “12” rated friendly piece, to understand it has ultimately ended up as a same old same old monster movie. It’s a million miles away from the class of Jaws, and lacks the tongue in cheek knowing of Deep Blue Sea, but it fills a gap in that undemanding time wasting way. 5/10

• Gimly: It’s nice to see a Shark-led Creature Feature that’s actually got some money behind it, but _The Meg_ is still really nothing special.

  _Final rating:★★½ – Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._