It starts with Jonas and his team on a rescue mission, to save the people from a submarine, but while they’re down there, they’re attacked by something and must flee with the only members of the crew they found. Jonas makes the decision to leave, knowing that two of his team men are down there, because it’s too dangerous and they might all die. Dr Heller does not agree with his decision, says he lost it under pressure and was too coward to risk going back for them.
Five years later. There’s a research facility underwater, thanks to rich Mr Morris who now comes to see the place. They’re about to do an important experiment, because Mr Zhang has a theory that the bottom of the ocean underneath is not where everyone thinks it is. He thinks there’s a layer of gas or whatever fog-like thing it is that hides something below and he’s right.
Lori, Wally and Toshi go down with a small submarine and find a new world, full of life, but they also see a big something that attacks them so they can’t leave.
Mac goes to Thailand to convince Jonas to accept the rescue mission, and he does it only because Lori is his ex-wife. Zhang’s daughter Suyin attempts the rescue herself, but is attacked by a giant squid, and survives only because a huge shark arrives to frighten the squid away. I think it fled, or maybe it was eaten, not sure.
Jonas insists she goes back up, and he continues his mission, and he saves Lori and Wally, but the creature is quickly coming back so Toshi puts his goodbye letter to his wife in Wally’s pocket then locks himself in and switches all the lights on to attract the creature to him and not them, and in doing so he dies to save them.
At first Suyin yells at Jonas for leaving him behind, but then she comes to her senses and apologises to him, and they become sort of friends.
Jonas is already friendly with her eight-year-old daughter :)
Lori is brought to the infirmary right away and it appears she’ll make it.
They all talk about what they should do now about the creature, that they now know is a megalodont: they were thought to be extinct, but no.
Jonas is of course all against approaching ‘the meg’ in any way, but the matter is settled when the meg comes up from where they met it, frightens the little girl and then starts eating whales and boats of people.
They decide to go after it and to kill it with some poison, so they reach the area where a bot of people were illegally ‘shark finning’, meaning they took their fins and threw them back into the ocean to die. I don’t know how many people there was, but only one arm remains of them.
So, the plan: Jonas swims towards it to shoot a tracker at its fin, so they’ll know where it is at all times. Then Suyin enters a shark-proof cage and manages to shoot it in a tender zone, but it doesn’t go down easily. Jonas swims to her to save her. Again.
The meg tries again to eat them, but the poison finally kills it. Its body is brought up on their boat, but nobody seemed to realise that it didn’t appear to be as huge as it was before, and sure enough while they’re all laughing, a bigger meg shows up, eats the dead meg and also Wally, and destroys their boat.
Heller sacrifices himself, like Toshi did, dying so that Jaxx could make it. Mr Zhang is badly hurt and dies before they can reach a doctor (since Heller is dead, Zhang could not be looked at right away, and died on the lifeboat 9.
Now Morris tells everyone that he alerted the authorities of all the nearby countries, so the meg is not their problem anymore, those countries will send ships to deal with it.
Life on Mana One seems to be returning to normal, talking and stuff, and Jonas is teased about his ‘relationship’ with Suyin, even her daughter seems to want it.
Morris didn’t alert anyone, he is actually going out there to kill it himself, to avoid repercussions and blame on him. He has a helicopter drop bombs into the ocean, and when they say it’s dead he approaches the beast, only to find out it’s not a shark, they killed a whale - now, they didn’t know how big the meg was, but Morris should have known…
Drawn by the blood, the meg arrives to eat the whale, and eats Morris too.
Jonas and the others learn the truth, they see the meg is heading to a heavy populated beach and plan to draw it away with a whale-sound.
It’s not clear how many people it eats, when it leaves people seem rather quiet, is it possible it didn’t eat anyone? It seems to me that’s what they’re implying, but it makes no sense at all.
Called by the sound, the meg approaches their ship; Jonas and Suyin try to kill it with rockets from their small submarines or whatever they’re called, they’re not real submarines, but they can’t kill it.
Helicopters who recorded their fight get so distracted they hit each other and destroy our guys’ ship too. Jonas fights the meg alone, cutting it open with his ship and then pushing a harpoon deep inside its eye. I don’t know if it would have been enough, but all the normal sharks come to eat it and this will kill it for sure.
Everyone’s okay, even the wedding party on that boat. The bride was sad because she thought her dog Pippin had died, but as Suyin bring back Jonas, we see that Pippin is swimming back to her.
So: creature dead, hero and a few others alive, everything’s ok. The end.
Jonas - Jason Stathan
Suyin - Li BingBing
Morris - Rainn Wilson
Lori - Jessica McNamee
Mack - Cliff Curtis
Jaxx - Ruby Rose
Meiying - Shuya Sophia Cai
Toshi - Masi Oka
Zhang - Winston Zhao
ITA shark il primo squalo
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