Beautiful scenery, excellent CGI, and great characters produce a DC movie that isn't anywhere as dark as most of the other DCEU movies.

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2018)

In AQUAMAN, the movie does a beautiful job at being both a sequel to Justice League as well as an introduction of the Aquaman origin story through its use of flashbacks that didn't jar the viewer out of the tempo of the film. Hopefully the DCEU bosses can remember how to replicate the feeling of this movie and how it was done in their future stand alone character films.
In most movies an actor and their character tends to steal the spotlight whenever on screen and Jason Mamoa skirting the line between hero of the common man, man who would be king, and hero of all; shows his ability to be a mixture of a man who wants to help others without recognition, doesn't want or like to take himself so serious, and finally becoming the man his mom told him about in 'Atlantian fork stories.' Momoa shows the hurt he has when thinking that he was the fault of so many peoples.
Overall the characters, and use of beautiful colors and backgrounds, the interwoven mix of the past and the present to tell the story as well as the origin story of AQUAMAN help the movie to become the second strongest film of the DCEU by a very wide margin.