Visually stunning, but mediocre in every other way

Rating: 3/10 (2 February 2019)

I am surprised that this movie currently has 7.4 on IMDb. This would be a good movie for a 13-year-old going to see their first PG13 movie - incredibly easy to follow and visually exciting. As an adult, I found it to be cringey and generic the whole time. When you meet a villain, evil music plays. When you meet a hero, good music plays, and their hair blows in the wind - nothing is left to the viewer to figure out. Whoever did the music for this movie...should find a new career path. There is a scene where they go to Africa, and a version of the song "Africa" is played...pure cringe. The characters are undeveloped, and Jason Momoa, while visually a perfect action hero, cannot deliver authentic emotion through Aquaman's dialogue (I prefer him speaking Dothraki). The fighting scenes were shot beautifully, but there was so much screen time devoted to fight scenes that they became boring...I mean, we already know who's going to win. The other annoying thing was the cheap strategy of having an extremely quiet moment followed by an incredibly loud noise to startle you - it would've been fine to employ this strategy once, but it happened about four times in the movie, as if the writers couldn't think of any other way to create excitement. This is a dumbed-down superhero movie that you could watch with your kids, but don't waste your money on it if you're expecting an Iron Man or Black Panther level of quality.