Running, punching and blowing up sharks comprise the other 5%. He’s an actor whose dead-eyed stares make up 95% of his method. Some people are method actors, relying on past experiences to create their performances. Second, Jason Statham, the po-faced hero who, deep down, knows this is silly but is too stoic to admit it to himself or to us. It’s a giant shark story that plays like a watery “Valley of Gwangi.” The key to its ridiculous effervescence is twofold. There are some silly thrills but humungous squids, scientific mumbo jumbo and b-movie dialogue that would make Roger Corman blush buffer the excitements.
“The Meg” tries to take all of the thrills of Shark Week and compress them into two hours. “Man versus Maggie isn’t a fight,” he grunts, “it’s a slaughter. Hired by Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao) Taylor must not only save the stranded sailors but also make sure the Meg doesn’t eat the world… or something. Now it appears the giant beast is back and hungry for the crew trapped inside the submersible. Years before Taylor narrowly escaped being eaten by a 70-foot shark, the Carcharodon megalodon-“Meg” for short-a 100,000 pound, prehistoric great white thought to have been extinct for about 2 million years. Think Quint from “Jaws” without the expressive range. You know exactly what you’re getting into here but, because I am paid by the word, here we go.īased on the book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten, “the Meg” sees action-man Statham play Jonas Taylor, a rescue diver who must face his fears to save the crew of a marooned deep-sea submersible from a fate worse than sharknado. Its tagline is “Pleased to eat you.” There is no need for a review. After all, the film has already drawn a number of comparisons to Jurassic Park, which similarly took Michael Crichton's original source material and altered it significantly to craft a story that worked better for a new medium.“The Meg” stars Jason Statham.
It makes plenty of sense to learn that so many elements of The Meg changed as it was adapted into a film. Beyond that, certain physical characteristics of the shark were altered (notably the color of the shark) to make things work better from a technical perspective and to avoid comparisons to Moby Dick. In order to tell a leaner story that worked better on the big screen, Turteltaub and his team made some notable changes to the core ensemble of personalities in The Meg, which made this iteration of the tale different from its source material. I thought, visually, that's gonna be too Moby Dick.Ĭhanges are generally expected when a story makes the jump from a book to a movie, as the two mediums are very different.
It's an all-white sort of albino shark in the novel. And the physical characteristics of the shark have changed a little bit. some things are blended, and we've done a lot of that. There are characters in the novel that don't necessarily.
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