There are a lot of reviews here bashing this movie, hating China and the Chinese actors, I don't really know what they expected. An Oscar nominee?? It's a creature feature that's supposed to attract all audiences. Nothing we haven't seen already in other creature movies like anaconda, the piranha saga, other sharks... The idea was interesting, special effects are good and actors are not that bad like people are hating here. Everything is very under exploited, though. It could have been much, much better. Probably the studio wanted some PG movie and cut out all the good parts. But it's watchable on TV on a rainy Saturday afternoon like I'm doing right now. If you want a seriously bad movie you should try the other megalodon movie that came out at about the same time as this one.
One point to highlight is: why does everyone hate Chinese things? The main researcher is Chinese and he speaks in Chinese to his daughter who's also working in the platform, and everyone seems to hate that?? I found it refreshing to have a different female lead, and I'm not Chinese (not from the US either). She is not white, not an English native, chemistry with Statham is quite good, she's actually closer to his age than most dumb twenty something chicks that do nothing in his other movies, she is a single mom oceanographer for God's sake, and everyone hates her?? What's wrong with you?????
