Jason statham in waters (very) disorders: somewhere between Abyss and Godzilla (critic)

Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Highrise) films the new damage from Megalodon, broadcast for the first time in clear this Sunday.

“This is a film that is much less stupid than it looks,” wrote first in his critical discovering In troubled watersduring the summer of 2018. Jason Statham Facing a Megalodon, a giant shark that we thought disappeared with the dinosaurs, that offered a fun and uninhibited summer show.

$ 530 million pocketed later, The Warner Bros ordered the rest. Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Highrise, Free Fire) succeeds Jon Turteltaub at the controls ofIn waters (very) troublesstill written by Dean Georgaris, Jon and Erich Hoeber. A Blocbkbuster to (re) see this Sunday evening on TF1.

For this new story, the whole team plunges more deep into the escalation: this time, the hero will have to immerse himself at the heart of a underwater pit ever exploited by man, and he will obviously fall on several prehistoric creatures. Always so hungry!

Here is the trailer for (very) disorders:

A sort of unofficial little brother of Jurassic Park, The Meg 2 was released in the summer of 2023 in the cinema, with, in addition to Statham, Sophia Cai and Page Kennedy, who were all on the poster of the first part and who come back. This suite is also carried by Jing Wu (Wolf Warriors), Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood), Skyler Samuels (The Gifted), Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil) and Cliff Curtis (Avatar).

Is it worth a look? Here is what was thought of first when it was released in the cinema:

Five years ago, in troubled waters revived the public’s interest in shark films with a blockbuster featuring Jason Statham in front of a megalodon, a giant species officially extinguished millions of years ago. A “pleasantly predictable and refreshing summer and aquatic entertainment”, which operated mainly thanks to the performance of the Stath ‘in “Lifegiver at sea charming, altruistic, political and seducer of women (but with respect)”.

Farmly far from the roles of the usual Castagneur, in short. For number 2, however, he can go there on the scenes of fighting or chases against giant sharks!

The aptly named water suite (very) disorders had to do more: this time it is no less than three critters 20 meters long that try to crunch the band of ecological scientists, also struggling with bandits that plunder the seabed. A completely assumed overbidding, which forgets the credibility card for that of the great show.

The Meg 2 is a film somewhere between Abyss and Godzilla. Entertaining and impressive by the extent of his creatures … but not necessarily very digestible. The blockbuster is too often fading behind the third assumed degree of the scenario: we see for example Statham swimming without protection at 7,000 meters deep in all relaxation …

Director Ben Wheatley, however, succeeds in creating striking moments when he summons space imagery to show the ocean floor: combinations are worthy of astronauts, submarines resemble spaceships.

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