Everything shiny but no substance

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2019)

People who write screen plays know one thing, how to make a boring movie. They use one formula to create a movie which people will go to watch but then never want to see it again because the replay value is ZERO.
Movies with substance have replay value. A movie such as Citizen Cane, Glory, Lincoln, Clockwork Orange, Gone with the Wind, Grapes of Wrath, Dr. Strangelove or To Kill a Mockingbird. All great movies which you can watch again to see a lesson in life about real people with real problems, played by great actors and great directors and great screen writers.
Yes, Aquaman is fantasy, but it lacks a connection to being a person. There is no desire to know the main character or cheer for them. You already know they are going to win. You already know they will succeed. The writing is so bad, that they show you the "finishing move" for the final battle which is never used at any other time in the movie. It's a copy cat script of several dozen other movies in the last fifty years where the hero is predicted to win while in the same breath told he can't win.
Gee, I wonder what is going to happen at the end?
YAWN!
Sure the action is good, there are some good fight scenes, but most of it was just a bunch of CGI thrown in for the big summer block buster formula. It lacked any fight scenes which I would want to see more than once.
Another thing which bothered me is the choice of casting. Aquaman is supposed to be from Atlantis. He isn't a half breed. He isn't from the South Pacific. The story of the people from Atlantis is from the Mediterranean. Why do you think the Atlantic Ocean is called that? Its because of Atlantis!!
So in closing. BARF. The movie sucks. Just another crappy movie pumped out by crappy Hollywood.