It takes special comic timing to deliver zingers like “Chew on this, you ugly bastard” with just the right amount of knowing ridiculousness. Arnie could do it. So could Bruce Willis. But over the past 25 years, everyone’s favorite scowling, shaven-headed Brit, Jason Statham, has asserted himself as the new king of the action hero one-liner. And The Meg, the first time his archnemesis happened to be a bloodthirsty 75-foot shark from an unexplored world beneath the Mariana Trench, gave him plenty of opportunity to flex both his comedic and real muscles.
