Review – Meg 2: The Trench

I wish I had a better understanding of the plot structures and other conventions of Chinese action movies. Like the original, this was fairly obviously made to screen on both sides of the Pacific without a lot of regional adjustment for either market. I guess the assumption was that Chinese audiences would expect silly characters and an episodic, fragmentary story, and US audiences wouldn’t care as long as they got plenty of giant sharks. If you liked the first one, well, they made you another one. See if desperate