Don't get me wrong, it's a ton of fun. The jump scares are fantastic and peppered evenly throughout the runtime. The acting is mostly fine and there's some fun tech that induces cool wideshots of The Meg underwater looking properly menacing. There are long stretches of rescue-operation-type scenes that I wasn't expecting in a summer shark movie, and though they're good scenes it wreaks havoc with the pacing. Great popcorn-munching fun, but its staying power is suspect.

Together with Skyscraper this demonstrates a return to '90s-style action movies. I'm personally delighted with the trend and am interested to see how many more movies will line up to follow the trend.