The Meg: 7 Reasons It's The Best Dumb Movie Of 2018
3. Is The Shark A Merciless Killer Or Not?
The Meg's final act takes place near a packed Chinese beach, with the titular beastie causing all sorts of havoc and inciting mass hysteria among the hundreds of tourists and swimmers.
From the shark's point of view, you'd think it would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. But, disappointingly, this isn't what's conveyed onscreen at all.
Up until this point, Meggy has been shown to be drawn to people floating in the water who are making a lot of movement. These people typically don't survive very long given the shark's appetite and jaw size, and the movie makes this point clear on several occasions.
But come this ending sequence - when there are dozens of people all swimming and thrashing around in the water - Meggy simply ignores all the easy food that's on display.
This is the single most disappointing thing about The Meg. Having the shark unleash its bloody furor on a packed tourist beach would've been amazing to watch, but because the movie had to be PG-13 (to rake in more cash), that simply couldn't happen. A result of this is that the movie completely defies its own logic - by having the shark eat moving people in one scene, and ignore them in the next.