Aquaman with a Kodak.

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2018)

Essentially, 'Aquaman (2018)' is an adaptation of the animated 'Justice League: Throne Of Atlantis (2015)', except it's twice as long, twice as sloppy and, generally, just twice as bad, doing less in its one-hundred and forty-three minutes than that film does in its brisk seventy-two and only making changes for the worse (some of which have to do with the fact that this film, somehow, comes after 'Justice League (2017)'). Funnily enough, it's around the time that Pitbull's new 'Africa' cover starts playing that the film really takes a dive as it's here that its 'macguffin' treasure hunt really sinks in, leading straight into a conventional and old-fashioned feeling 'superhero' story that, even at its best (which is a decent Sicily-based action-scene), floats along providing nothing more than a shallow level of engagement. If this is the best that DC can conjure up, we're in deep trouble. 5/10