It's decent

Rating: 6/10 (16 December 2018)

Aquaman is directed by James Wan and is the 6th movie in the controversial DCEU.
Let's start with the positives. The acting all around is excellent. Jason Momoa is an excellent Aquaman, and the action scenes are some of the best I've seen from a comic book movie in a long time. Another good thing going for this movie is that it's very self-contained. It's no Batman v. Superman or Suicide Squad. It doesn't try to set up 2-3 spinoff movies, which DC movies are sometimes known for. The villains weren't half bad. You could understand them, and they weren't evil for the sake of being evil. Finally, James Wan creates a fantastic world, which for me was
breathtaking at times.
But that doesn't mean there aren't negatives. The movie is clocking around 2 hours and 23 minutes, and you can feel it. There were so many scenes that were unnecessary, and so many of the jokes just fell flat and didn't land with me or the audience that I was with. Besides the action scenes, everything was lackluster. The Arthur and Mera relationship was cringy at times, but that's not something that's going to ruin the movie for you. Aquaman is also very predictable; which takes the fun and suspense out during certain moments of the film.
A film with great acting, excellent fights, and a fantastic setting are ultimately brought down by its dragged on runtime, bad jokes, and uneventful/unnecessary scenes.
Aquaman gets a 6/10.