Meg 2 features one of the wildest movie moments of the year – and people can't get over it
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Meg 2: The Trench . If you've yet to see the movie and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!
No one can believe that actually happens in Meg 2: The Trench. No, we're not talking about the bit where Jason Statham holds a humungous shark's jaws open with just his legs, or when Wu Jing uses a bomb made of fertilizer to blow up a giant octopus; we're talking about the bit where protagonist Jonas Taylor swims across the ocean floor with no diving gear...
Directed by Ben Wheatley, the sci-fi sequel sees eco-warrior Jonas and his team stumble across an illegal mining operation while investigating the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench. Their dive is disrupted when head miner Montes – and their shady employer, billionaire Hillary Driscoli – blows up his team to hide their work from the scientist explorers, ripping a hole in the thermocline layer and grounding Jonas (Statham) and his buddies' ships.
Having previously spotted escape pods attached to the miners' secret station, Jonas and co throw on their high-tech exosuits and start trudging along the ocean floor towards it. Not all of them make it, due to limited oxygen supplies and a trio of megalodons and other aquatic creatures wreaking havoc, but the situation gets even more dire when Jess, their navigator on the surface, reveals herself to be in cahoots with Hillary. She releases the escape pods before Jonas, his stepdaughter Meiying, Jiuming, and Rigas get to them, before trapping them inside a flooding chamber. Now, here's where things get a little bonkers...
Realizing that the only way they'll be able to escape the chamber is by someone opening it from the outside, Jonas volunteers to swim out of a
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