An Honest Review

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2018)

The 10's? are a bit ridiculous. This was not a ten movie. This guy is clearly Aquaman. Society hasn't kind of figured that out? He's not trying to hide or disguise himself. He's not working a regular job in an alternate identity. Lex Luthor is not required to figure this out. Yet Manta says several times he needs help finding him? Clearly Mantas...a retard! Yet....
There was nothing to imply Manta was adapt at reverse engineering advanced technology, yet he does it in 2 minutes? Because he needed to! It would have been far better to have an Atlantian weapons tech create it for him He's one of those annoying cardboard characters that they leave open his specific skills sets so they can just create an expertise for him whenever needed. Like how 100's of people in TV and Movies are fantastic world class hackers in their spare time. In this case Manta is Tony Stark when he needs to be.
To me if somebody is THIS SMART, why are they a pirate? Why are they covertly working for Atlantis? How did they meet? Too many "just because" things. Another annoying thing...the bad guys of Atlantis clearly know EXACTLY where Arthur lives, which opens a large kettle of fish.
At one point a villain will reveal he's known who was loyal to him and who wasn't the entire time. Which again brings up more questions than answers.
Jason Mamoa plays Aquaman as a surfer/biker. It helps cement him as about as non royal as King Ralph. He's a fish out of water. One thing that should be amended is he's able to talk to all sorts of Marine life, not just fish.
Ok so there's flaws. Then there's these 1/10 reviews. Also ridiculous. The movie is light hearted without mimicking Thor Ragnarok which got a little too silly. The acting is not going to win any awards. But I don't see Anthony Hopkins getting considerations for his Marvel work either.
The visuals are stunning. The fight scenes are great! The chase scene rivals any Bond movie. Aquaman is very strong and invulnerable. But he's not Superman and this is shown very well that he's a notch below, but not too far below.
This was a great effort. Not as good as WonderWoman, but not too far off.