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Meg 2: The Trench review: Light on science, heavy on fun

This action-packed sequel from Ben Wheatley returns us to a world at the mercy of megalodons – with only Jason Statham to defend us. It’s cheesy and full of scientific inaccuracies – but hugely entertaining

By Hanna Flint

4 August 2023

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Jason Statham in a sticky situation in Meg 2: The Trench

Ben Wheatley

On general release in cinemas

Meg 2: The Trench isn’t a film that would hold up under the lightest of scrutiny by marine biologists, physicists or any number of scientists from other disciplines. The script contends with a secret, man-made mining station near the bottom of the Mariana trench, a human successfully free-diving at a depth of over 7000 metres, another quickly ascending that distance to the surface in a miraculous dive suit that prevents decompression poisoning and his lungs exploding…

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