This is very, very far away from a 10 or even a great movie

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2019)

A 9 for me is the perfect movie, a 10 means, it is pushing all the right buttons for me. The 6 means, it is really average, but genrefans might like it. A 7 would be a recommendation to buy the BluRay, but I certainly cannot recommend anything like this.
From all the critics and the ratings I really thought this is going to be a good movie. Here are some points, why it is not:

Nicole Kidman and "the father" have 0 chemistry. Why in earth would a queen be interested in this guy? We will never know. When they meet again at the end of the movie at the dock and run towards each other, I actually laughed.
Amber Heard cannot act very well. She is a beautiful woman, no doubt, but she could not carry her weight in the story
Jason Momoa cannot act good enough for a main lead. He can act, he has done a good job, but there are way too many scenes where he fails miserably to transport emotions. Just playing the badass is not enough.
What is up with the extremely colourful, over the top CGI? If I want to watch a big war like this, I will watch a space opera. Not a single time I thought "cool", all the time I thought "hey this is like shooting scenes in the 70s: long, drawn out, completely meaningless without anything really happening for minutes".
The story was completely predictable from minute one. The only "twist" was for me that Aquaman was not betrayed by the character of Willem Dafoe
the costumes look so plastic, the weaponry, the armor, here was a possibility to show creativity: How would weapon and armor look like of an army from the deep sea? The movies answer: Just like on land, only colourful and plastique looking
again 0 chemistry between Momoa and Heard..... why would they love each other? Because the script says so?
really, why is Aquaman "worthy"? Because the script says so? Why should a creature that protects a weapon for 1000s of years (without eating anything, biology anyone?) hand that weapon over to Aquaman? Because he is like King Arthur and pulls Excalibur from King Atlan? That was so cheesy and stolen, it made me cringe in the inside.
I nearly forgot about the "Black Manta".... when he was on screen with his ridiculously big helmet for the first time, I had to laugh. Is there a more laughable, ridiculous villain in any movie?

I am actually really sorry for the DC fans. While Wonder Woman was a great movie, amazing timing and good enough acting, this is the only movie that stands out. Everything else is just not good.
Justice League or Aquaman are so far away from the quality of even "average" Marvel movies, it hurts.