An average movie

I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but, since my step-son Nick is a big fan of shark films, we still went to see the damned thing in the movie theater when it released. To be honest, even though we did see also together 'The Meg', I have to admit that I barely remembered it. Anyway, how was this sequel? Well, unfortunately, the first half turned out to be such a drag and, at some point, I was worried that this movie would turn out to be really lame after all. Basically, it started out as some kind of cheap 'Jurassic Park' ripp-off but, when they started to go deep in the sea, it was probably even worse. Indeed, it was just so dark so you barely could see anything but, above all, the whole survival thing was just so generic and tedious. However, at some point, when they finally got out of the water and started to make some damages to this Fun Island, they suddenly completely changed the tone and, somehow, it actually started to work. Even though Jason Statham was apparently not pleased with this lighter tone, I thought it was more than welcome though. Indeed, from this point on, it became really silly and over-the-top and, in my opinion, it was a much better approach for a B monster feature like this one instead of what they tried to do in the self-serious first part. As a result, you get some huge monsters fighting each other and also Jason Statham killing not one but several megalodons in the most ridiculous ways you could possibly imagine. It's too bad that they didn't handle the whole movie this way and this change of tone was bewildering and rather jarring. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of a fun second half, I'm afraid that the damned thing didn't really work and I don't think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a huge fan of the genre. 

5/10