Imagine: exploring the Mariana Trench and something big attacks your submarine while in the middle of a rescue mission. You have saved 11 other passengers already, but you have to make a decision: attempt to rescue the remaining two people and risk everyone’s life, or leave the last two people behind while saving 11. In the movie “The Meg,” that is exactly what Captain Jonas Taylor has to do. He knows that something big attacked the other sub during the mission, but nobody believes him; everyone thinks Jonas is crazy and that he was a coward for leaving behind two good people. But eventually, Jonas proves to everybody that he wasn’t crazy. But how far would Jonas have to go, and how many people will have to die, for him to do just that?
In “The Meg”, Naval Captain Jonas Taylor has gone off the grid to Thailand because all his friends and family don’t believe happened to him and his crew five years ago on a rescue mission. Meanwhile, off the coast of China, an underwater research facility named Mana One has sent out a small team to explore the Mariana Trench. While the team was exploring, something big attacks the submarine. Jonas Taylor is called to the facility to aid yet another rescue mission all too familiar for him — only this time, it involves his ex-wife. Later in the film, the mysterious creature is identified as a Megalodon — a 75 foot long shark that went extinct — 2.6 million years ago, to be exact. In the film, the meg was being kept in the Mariana Trench by an underwater thermal cloud created by the heat vents that can be found on the bottom of the oceans. Because of the temperature difference, the meg in the movie wasn’t able to go anywhere. To save everyone from total disaster, the team at Mana One must kill the walking fossil.
I really enjoyed this movie — probably one of the best I have seen. I liked that it gave insight as to what could actually be at the bottom of the ocean. Knowing that a vast majority (over 80%) of the ocean is unexplored made me wonder if there could really be an actual megalodon beneath the ocean’s surface. I thought the actors who were in the film were amazing at playing their roles, and the graphics were awesome; everything seemed lifelike and it was unreal that it seemed as if I was there under the water with a giant shark. I highly recommend this film as it was the right amount of thrill and suspense. Maybe there really is a megalodon, but who knows?