Cheesy which fit the viewing mood for us

Rating: 5/10 (8 November 2019)

I don't know the Aquaman story so I am definitely not a purist but this movie fit the bill for us one night. We were in the mood for one of those cheesy disaster movies where the misunderstood hero gets fired for alerting the corrupt supervisor/politician then ends up saving at least their love interest and maybe some number of others. We couldn't find anything and saw this show up in HBO. So we tried it. Fit the mood exactly! Cheesy, sometimes funny, good visuals and holy crap moments when you see some of the big name actors involved. Wonder if Wilem Dafoe liked his role. I personally found it interesting (especially in the current American political climate) that the innocent victims at the beginning were Russian submariners and the villians were angry American black males. Hmmmm...