Seems more a videogame than a movie

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2019)

When it comes to "Aquaman" it is hard to write an opinion. The CGI is amazing, visually speaking, is stunning, I liked the representation of Atlantis and its creatures, it seems a scifi city, but underwater, being a fan of futuristic stuff. I simply loved it and I think that is one of the best SFX that I've watched recently. The problem is that, exactly like in "Man of Steel", the movie is overloaded of computer generated images. In fact you there are more CGI, than filmed scenes. You really wonder why they didn't just made an animation movie in motion capture. I can understand that the underwater location is actually very difficult to create stunt scenes, but with a budget of 160 million dollars (source: IMDb movie page), they could have come up with something.
Costumes are simply horrible. I don't even know who approved them. Soldier costumes are a mix between a space suit and a diver suit. Without any doubt, the lowest point is Black Manta. It seems a bug, that you can easily crush. I laughed when I saw it. The actor that played him was really bad, not credible as a villain. They should definitely make better casting decision in Warner Bros. Speaking of which, I was really disappointed by Patrick Wilson, I think that he is one of the best actors in Hollywood and I watched many movies starring him, such as the entire saga of "The Conjuring", "Insidious" and I loved his interpretation in "Watchmen", so he even has already experience with superhero movies. In "Aquaman" was underwhelming and not credible at all as a villain, even less than Black Manta. He didn't even tried to create a credible character: no personality and no charisma. Jason Momoa is the usual supermacho guy that will always be stuck in this kind of roles, exactly like Vin Diesel, but at least this was a good choice, and actually I liked him playing Arthur.
The DC Extended Universe has a lot of potentialities, but they are simply wasting it. Stop doing movies drugged of CGI like this one or "Justice League", give us some real actions, more stunts scenes like in "Wonder Woman", or "Shazam!" Stop creating this mindless movies with always the same story, try at least something different, as in "Batman V. Superman". DC is capable to create good movies if it wants to, and I have reported three valid examples. Let's only hope that the second Wonder Woman and "Birds of Prey" movies, will be good.