Review of The Meg (2018) by Gianluca T — 25 Aug 2018

While the Action and CGI is amazing to watch, with great performances from the cast. The man thing that drags this film down, other than it's use of clichés, is it's insistence on trying to present Jack Morris as the 'Bad Guy':

- Firstly, he was willing to spend a fortune on scientific research based solely on a theory presented to him by a top Marine scientist.

- Secondly, even though he initially wanted to profit from the Megalodon, he never hides this from anyone and even makes the valid point that if they don't do it, somebody else will, before having an open discussion with everyone on how to do so without endangering anymore lives.

- Thirdly, when they do decide to ultimately go kill it, he's quite helpful and even saves Jaxx's life.

- Fourth, while he did lie about telling the authorities, even as the Billionaire Owner of Mana One his word has only slightly more credibility than anyone else on-board, and it wouldn't be surprising if the authorities just wrote it off as a bored rich guy messing around if he did tell them to look out for a 'Giant Long-Thought to be Extinct Species of Killer Shark', offering his crew some words of comfort and making up a scenario where he'd told them and 'believed' him would've be helpful during such a stressful time.

- Finally, he chose to go out and kill the Megalodon himself when he could of just as easily ran off and feigned ignorance of the whole thing, and his plan to do so wouldn't of been much different from a Military response (who also would've likely kept quiet about the Megalodon to avoid mass public panic) and would've worked if it wasn't for an unforeseen whale been nearby.