Below average...

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2019)

All these comes to point out that no matter how much money you put in a film and how much interesting character you can use from a beloved universe, if you don't set the story straight, you will KILL its potential.
DC had already messed up its film and Wonder Woman being just AVERAGE, Aquaman was seen with lot of hope. And without a doubt compared to previous DC films, it may be a better film,, but we don't lower our standards.
At start, though Nicole Kidman acted well and the other guy tried his best, the connection was just not there. Their reunion was like blah. Nobody cares.
Joke attempts were pathetic. You could pinpoint the joke long before the joke is delivered. They even added some joke sounds or something. Just pitiful.
And the MUSIC! Totally out of place. Just didn't feel right at all. Soundtracks accompanying many a things were just bad, pulled you out of the experience.
Villian generic. The sub villian whose dad died, just total waste. Could have scrapped him and developed the story well.
The chemistry between the leads Jason Mamoa and Amber Heard - NON EXISTENT. Totally forced, out of place.
You can't blame the actors because the dialogue and script was crap. They can do nothing with the crap dialogue.
You could just predict, yes this is the joke part, yes this is the caring part, romance part and all feels so stupid and manipulated.
Most unintentional hilarious scene - Goes to some place in Italy (Here the aspect ratio changes to 'bring in the romance or whatever'). She looks around in wonder and some guy gives her a bunch of roses for NO REASON (maybe he got enticed by the red hair and just blatantly obvious distracting dress) , makes some water dolphins and the kid watching it gives her a Pinocchio book. WHAT?
Everything feels plastic. No amount of light and CGI effects can mask the blandness of the whole movie. Trying to suck out emotions from audience unsuccessfully.
Just different styles mixed here and there. At times felt cinematic, other times like a badly made romcom tv, other times like a video game!
There's a scene when its nighttime and they are in the boat towards the place with the trident, and some creature things jump the ship to attack them. That whole 1-2 minutes feels like that out of a video game! The camera movement, closeups, the whole thing.
Ultimately the plot as a whole was not the best. But it could have been salvagable.
Forgettable watch.
But its not without its positives. Had some pretty cool action scenes.
Atlantis was very colourful! And thats it.