The Meg opens with rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) losing two friends while evacuating a damaged submarine. However ...

Intensity . As if being trapped in a submarine at a depth deeper than 36,000 isn’t intense enough, throw a shark larger than your submarine into the mix and things intensify.

Still, The Meg is oddly charming, more pulp than cheese, like the sci-fi pumped out in the 1950s—nothing so good as Them or Fiends Without a Face, more like Gorgo meets The Atomic Submarine.