Some fans like knowing precisely how long they have to sit in the cinema before they even walk through the door.
Two factors in any movie-goer’s obsessive planning are the runtime and whether or not you have to sit through endless credits to get to a post credit scene.
For The Meg, we’ve got the answers to both of those questions.
How long is The Meg?
Considering The Meg has a pretty simple premise (giant shark terrorises humans), the movie runs a whopping one hour and 52 minutes.
The time is sure to fly by for the marine-based thriller, already garnering a mix of reviews from critics.
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Consensus says: “The Meg sets audiences up for a good old-fashioned B-movie creature feature, but lacks the genre thrills — or the cheesy bite — to make it worth diving in.”
Worth nearly two hours of your life? Perhaps, especially if you’re a fan of Statham’s particular brand of stoicism.
Harshest of all was the Houston Chronicle who wrote: “All those who like their summer movies as big as the Pacific and as dumb as a bucket of sand will appreciate The Meg.”
Continuing in a slightly more positive tone, the Houston Chronicle added The Meg is “a sometimes ridiculously entertaining, if forgettable, killer shark movie.”
While critics may find it forgettable, fans who have dedicated two hours to it will hopefully remember it fondly.
Does The Meg have a post-credit scene?
Anyone balking at the idea of an hour and 52 minutes in the cinema can breathe a sigh of relief.
The Meg does not have a post-credit scene, leaving its ending definitive and unchangeable.
While it might be a nice gesture to sit through the credits featuring the names of people who worked tirelessly on the shark thriller, it isn’t necessary for more action, nor for a hint of a sequel.
The possibility of a sequel still exists, however, as Steven Alten’s book, upon which the movie is based, has its own sequels.
Alten has spent over twenty years writing Meg sequel books about Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) and his family’s encounters with terrifying creatures of the deep.
According to ScreenRant: “The film leaves the door open for its followup to incorporate some of those very ideas into the mix, should The Meg become a commercial success.”
They speculate: “The Meg 2 could even go the route of Alten’s first sequel novel (1999’s The Trench aka. The Trench: Meg 2) and introduce the Kronosaurus – another prehistoric sea creature long thought extinct – into its universe.”
Whether or not Warner Brothers will want to risk another sea-bound thriller remains to be seen.
The Meg is certainly performing well at the Box Office, and Statham has been known to dedicate himself to a franchise.
The Meg is now playing in cinemas.