“Meg 2: The Trench” is a 2023 science fiction action film directed by Ben Wheatley, serving as the sequel to the 2018 movie “The Meg.” The film stars Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor, who returns to confront new threats lurking in the depths of the ocean.
Six years after the events of the first film, Jonas Taylor has been involved in fighting environmental crimes while helping Mana One explore the Mariana Trench, where the Megalodon had been found. Following the death of Jonas’ wife Suyin Zhang, he has been raising her teenage daughter Meiying alongside her uncle and Suyin’s brother Jiuming Zhang, who acquired his father’s company and merged it with his own with financial backing from wealthy industrialist Hillary Driscoll. Mana One has been studying an 80ft female Meg called Haiqi and 170 ft (52 m) male Meg called Scarface and 100 ft (30 m) male Meg called Beta meg, who was discovered as a pup and trained by Jiuming in a reserve in Hainan, visit cinechatter.site.
Jonas and Jiuming lead a routine submersible exploration to the Trench. Fellow Meg survivors DJ and Mac observe them from the Mana One. On the way down, the subs are pursued by Haiqi, who escaped captivity the previous night. The subs dive through the thermocline in an attempt to escape but Haiqi forces her way through it anyway. On the other side, the Mana One crews encounter two much larger Megs, a massive alpha male and a beta male, who mate with Haiqi. Jiuming realizes that Haiqi had been acting strange because it is mating season; she was calling the other Megs to mate.
Venturing further down, the team stumbles across an illegal oceanic mining operation captained by mercenary Montes, who has a vendetta against Jonas for his imprisonment some time before. Montes’ crew was hired by the secretly corrupt Driscoll to use the Mana One’s access to the Trench to mine rare-earth minerals that could earn them billions. Montes kills his crew in an explosion to cover up their activities, which causes a rupture in the Trench and grounds the team’s ships, check out cinechatter.site.
DJ, Mac, and Mana One analyst Jess discover that the rescue pod has been sabotaged, forcing the crew to use exosuits to walk toward Montes’ station, with only four of them surviving the journey. Jess reveals herself as a traitor and attempts to remotely kill the four, but they escape in a submersible. As the crew surfaces, they discover that the rupture from earlier has caused several Trench creatures, including the three Megs, lizard-like creatures known as Snappers, and a giant octopus to escape to the surface.
Jess is devoured by a Meg when it bites through a window thought to be “Meg-proof.” Jonas’ team escapes to a nearby resort, Fun Island. Driscoll, Montes, and the mercenaries arrive at Fun Island to kill Jonas’ crew but are attacked by the Snappers, who devour Driscoll. Jonas’ group splits to evacuate the tourists as the Megs and the octopus attack. Jonas kills the male Meg before being attacked by Montes. He knocks Montes into the mouth of the biggest Meg to be eaten. Jiuming creates a bomb out of fertilizer and takes over Driscoll’s helicopter with Mac.
The octopus takes down the helicopter, and Jiuming injures it with his bomb, attracting Haiqi, who kills the octopus. Jonas uses one of the helicopter’s rotors to fatally impale the biggest Meg. Haiqi heads towards Jonas, Jiuming, and Mac, but Jiuming uses his training signals to redirect her to a pod of dolphins. As the group settles on the beach and celebrates their survival, Jiuming mentions the possibility that Haiqi is pregnant at cinechatter.site.
“Meg 2: The Trench” was released in the United States on August 4, 2023, and grossed $397.7 million
