Aquaman

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2018)

Aquaman
This film is the most ambitious comic book film ever. James Wan manages to create a make believe world as implausible as it may seems at first underwater, the director makes it a make believe world. James Wan creates a make believe world as the likes of Pandora like James Cameron, also in the film Tron Legacy, James Wan creates a world that is fictional but like a magic wand the film Aquaman and its world makes the film a reality that you heavily invest yourself in. Momoa as the protagonist makes himself totally vulnerable as a man of two worlds, one the surface world and the other Atlanteans. The story of Aquaman or Arthur Curry begins with the coming of the queen Atlanna to escape an arranged marriage and the father of Arthur helps her in her vulnerable moment and a love story begins and there is a fruit of that love in Aquaman, a child of two worlds who is very reluctant to believe in the hype that he a chosen king like Mera played by Amber Heard with a heroine in her own right and fights as well as Momoa´s Aquaman, many times Mera saves Aquaman and the story is thus richer.
The main plot is that Aquaman´s younger, baby brother the always charismatic and suave Patrick Wilson wants to wage war against the surface world and needs four of the seven oceans´ kingdoms to wage the war. Mera´s father is one king that supports Orm, Patrick Wilson. Orm tries to get at least the four kingdoms needed to make his dream war true and almost manages to do this until the true king cometh.
In one of the side stories that is emotional invested Aquaman is asked by a pirate who begs Aquaman to save his father´s life, but Aquaman responds without a soul that the ocean´s rage and justice is the pirate´s justice. The son of the dead father becomes a villain of his own who had a secret accord with Atlantean king Orm who gives him secret tech to enhanced himself as the pirate becomes Black Manta, a villain full of hatred against Aquaman and in one of the sequences in Sicily, Italy, the about five minutes to ten minutes through the walls, roofs escapade of Mera and Aquaman against Black Manta is a very good scene.
Aquaman is a combination of the best movies of their respective genders, Indiana Jones in the archeological element done great by Dafoe who played an adviser who trains young Arthur and does indeed believe the coming of the true king, Aquaman himself. The visuals and the technology of Tron Legacy comes to mind, the ever made make believe world of Avatar and the metaphors of Lord of the Rings the Return of the King. Momoa makes a great work of Aquaman as a broken man who does not have faith or belief or hope in himself but many do believe in him like his love interest in Mera who always support him even if she makes many jokes on Aquaman´s expense, also Dafoe as the adviser and Nicole Kidman´s Atlanna and his father Senior Curry. Many believe in the great destiny of the true king Aquaman and finally when the moment of coronation happens, here cometh the great Atlan king remade, King Arthur Curry, Aquaman himself.