Visually OK but plot was weak and movie was full of holes

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2018)

So yeh, visually I thought the movie wasn't that bad. The problem (for me) was the plot and script.
In terms of plot, the movie was dumb. Let's put this into a stripped down summary:

At some point in history ('when people thought the world was flat') Atlantis was an all powerful mecca that had advanced technology. However, they overreached and ended up blowing the place up and sinking it below the sea. >>> Ok, sure... I guess.... how did a bunch of people get so much more advance than the rest of the world exactly? But anyway...

Then, the King went into exile because he was all upset about what he'd done.. >>> OK, fine.. seems like a pretty poor ruler.

But wait, he's a good guy really because he wanted the 'one true king' or something, to one day come and get his trident 'to unite the surface and land people'. Wait... there wasn't any issues with the land people before... why was the king bothered about that? Why didn't he just fix it himself?

I digress... So, the king sets up this stupid elaborate treasure hunt. First he, puts a message in a bottle.. why a bottle - do sea people drink out of bottles?... and hid it in a place under the Sahara desert - apparently when you fall under the sand in the sahara desert you end up in a deep cavern THAT HAS SUNLIGHT. Oh, and did I mention that this place is some kind of forge where the trident was made - and it's been there since the Sahara was actually under water... wait... that was around 7 million years ago... really?? So, yeh... then they have to find the message in a bottle in this ancient forge place (that can only be accessed with a drop of water... dumb) and this bottle needs to be placed in the hands of a statue of a roman king to show where the trench is.

Then the king wanted the treasure hunter to sail to the Trench (which, can I just point out is an area in the sea filled with big ugly monsters... how has nobody sailed through this place before and been attacked? - how does the world not know about this place that has millions of monsters in it??), go through it to the 'Center of the Earth' (which is apparently some kind of portal into another dimension... why call it the center of the Earth I don't know... it has sunlight) and get past an enormous monster.

All of this gets you a shiny golden trident. Did the King not take his medication or something? What's his deal? Surely anyone that found that place was going in to certain death if they weren't Aquaman.

I was just sat there laughing at this dumb elaborate treasure hunt the whole time. My wife, on the other hand, was laughing at the jokes (at them, not with them).
On top of stupid plot line, there were numerous gaffs.

When fighting the dude with the big bug head, Aquaman got blasted pretty badly.. he came out without a mark on him.. fine.. but his clothes shouldn't have

Speaking of clothes... there were a few iffy random wardrobe changes there when there really shouldn't have been. AND there weren't wardrobe changes when there should have been. Like when they got to the Sahara and flew across it in their outfits, which they then apparently continued to wear all the way to Sicily

Speaking of random travel... they went from a whale's mouth in the middle of the ocean to the coast of Africa - got some clothes and apparently chartered a plane across the desert. They try to con us that they had a bag full of sea gold.. but no, no they didn't have that. They literally just escaped from the Ring of Fire battle and swam into a whale. There were no bags of gold involved.

Then, how did they get to Sicily?? They had fallen deep underground.. in the middle of the desert. Did they walk to Europe??? Seriously.. DC??

I understand it must have been difficult with all the water/land changes, but there were plenty of times hair was swaying around when they were in air pockets.

The fish boy whose father got killed... why are you helping the man that killed him? Literally, when Aquaman shows up at the end and is clearly there to kick his stop his brother... why is that little boy helping the bad guy? He killed your father for no reason... right in front of you... stop helping him!!

I could go on.. but come on DC. You think you can just make a movie with action and CGI and expect to rival Marvel. Marvel make compelling plots and have people on set that actually check that their movies make a shred of sense. For a movie that cost around $160 mil to make, you would think someone on the set would be like 'But they're underground.. in Africa... how do they get to Sicily? Also, why is there sunlight in here?'....