I believe the CGI looked phenomenal, and the story not so muh

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2019)

The most noticeable issue with it as a film is that it takes itself way too seriously for the B-movie level dialogue, story, and acting to be taken as tongue-in-cheek, particularly the performances by Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, and Nicole Kidman. The story is also not very engaging and doesn't give you much reason to care about the characters, so the third act's big reveal just feels like a dues ex machina to give the end of the film some kind of emotional weight. There were definitely some fun action sequences and a couple of funny moments, but nothing about this movie made me interested in seeing more Aquaman movies, or the others in its extended universe.