Wooden acting, CGI fatigue

Rating: 4/10 (30 December 2018)

Even in the realm of a make-believe comic book universe, things should respect the rules of physics. When you watch Aquaman, you are left with the newly emerging (and very real) condition of CGI-fatigue. Nothing you see before you registers as real, in your brain, because nothing that moves a certain way in water moves that way in this film. One exits the long, dizzying experience feeling like they've just watched a long video game. Nothing is scary anymore. Nothing is exciting or suspenseful, because the filmmakers use no visual restraint in their storytelling. The excess of CGI use in films like Aquaman have just made us stop caring.
Jason Momoa mumbles out his words without any charisma or life; he comes across like an early and unpolished version of The Rock, and his lack of acting experience stands out in stark contrast to veterans like Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe.
Where Aquaman fails in engaging the audience in a compelling story through its weak acting and visual diarrhea, it does make up for in one area - costume design.