Meg 2: The Trench
Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 4, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
24
Negative:
8
Watch Now
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 7, 2023
Meg 2 (it lost the “The” somewhere along the way) is pretty awful stuff even in comparison to its predecessor. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 3, 2023
The Meg 2: The Trench loses the benefit of being an off-the-wall big-budget B-movie surprise, and it loses most of the laughs served up by the monster movie that took the summer of 2018 by surprise. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 10, 2023
Unfortunately, most of the budget seems to have been spent on the first half, a murky slog through the depths of the meg-infested abyssal depths of the titular Trench where the characters are puddle-deep and the villains so cardboard that their biggest danger isn't being chum but dissolving in water. Read full review
30
UproxxMike RyanAug 3, 2023
Meg 2: The Trench commits the worst sin a movie about a giant prehistoric shark can make: it’s kind of boring. I went in looking for an audacious good time and, instead, I got a movie about rock smugglers. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 4, 2023
Much as in his atrocious remake of “Rebecca” in 2020, Wheatley mostly phones it in here, and he does so with a rotary landline. At least until the final half-hour, when he’s finally free to unleash some monstrous chaos, this is one of the dullest films of the year, a plodding, poorly made giant shark movie that inexplicably lets the giant shark take a backseat to an evil underwater drilling operation. This thing just has no teeth. Read full review
20
BBCCaryn JamesAug 3, 2023
When a gigantic octopus tentacle reached out of the ocean to grab Meiying, it suddenly made me think of a very good octopus dish at a local restaurant. I wasn't even hungry. It's just that easy to lose interest in anything going on in this movie. Read full review
20
ScreenCrushMatt SingerAug 3, 2023
The movie is over 90 minutes before the slasher component kicks in — and by that point, I was too bored to find much of anything endearingly silly. Read full review
20
TheWrapTomris LafflyAug 3, 2023
There is a big difference between a campy film that doesn’t take itself too seriously and one that is just wall-to-wall miscalculated execution. For clarity, “The Trench” is firmly in the second camp. Read full review
More From This Movie

40 Critic Reviews

5.1 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 77 Project Hail Mary
2 75 Send Help
3 73 Hoppers
4 72 The Sheep Detectives
5 68 Crime 101
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL