Clunky Start but Gets it Together

Rating: 7/10 (30 March 2019)

(spoilers) The editing and sequencing and sometimes the dialog need help. Director Wan forgets any introductions, and goes for non-sequential development.. What follows is a mess for the first 30 min or so. The story gets some traction about the time Atlantis is wonderfully introduced; the visuals help us forget the shortfalls and problems with dialog, direction, and acting. Music soundtrack as pop-synths work well, but some of the contemporary soundtracks fall-flat. Jason Momoa's hang-loose mentality seems at first out-of-place and too loose, but we acclimate to it. Amber Heard is passable, and probably could've been done better by someone else. The movie is certainly like a live-action cartoon, and though sinks initially holds on to its grandiose bravado enough to become entertaining with the help of an underwater mishmash of medieval and scifi that works . 7/10 -- better than expected.