Aquaman (2018)

Rating: 5/10 (4 February 2019)

Another late screening for a film released last year, I wasn't dying to see it but had heard great and exciting things about the film and caught a late screening with my best friend to which we cackled and laughed throughout almost the entire film and I have no idea if this was good or bad.
This film was laughably cringy. The dialogue and delivery by actors was at times awful and head shakingly poor. The slow motion and L'Oreal esque style zooms on the femme fatales were so laughable.
The story was there I guess, a sort of swash buckling adventure film. Momoa was Momoa and not really a character. Amber Heard was much better then her shameful appearance in Justice League although some plot points seemed to be created with Arthur not even knowing her name despite meeting each other before and the two seemingly having a history.
The supporting cast were surprisingly poor. Willem Dafoe did nothing and you could tell he was immensely bored. Nicole Kidman was bad and I hate writing that as I LOVE her. Her American accent which she couldn't even hold was shocking as well as Temuera Morrison's accent he attempted to put on here and there.
Patrick Wilson was suitably over the top and chewing the scenery and he managed to make me laugh with his long drawn out war cries.
Dolph Lundgren was there I guess and his third act character shift was so poor. Djimon Hounsou, Ludi Lin and Randall Park were not in the film enough to make an impact. Graham McTavish was probably the least worst, with his suitable powering performance. Michael Beach whom I also enjoy had some disgustingly cringy lines as did his son played by Yahya Abdul Mateen II who portrayed fan favourite Black Manta.
The effects at times were great and at other times horrible. The cinematography was decent. The music was decent if not forgettable. Some music choices were so bad, SO bad that they had to be pranking the audience, especially that scene in Italy, we were just laughing our heads off it was unbelievable. This film is so unbelievably cringy that it makes one wonder if what they are viewing is even real.
Lord knows how Julie Andrews and John Rhys Davies got into this mess.
The imagination was great, props to Wan especially with character designs, creatures and weapons etc.
I can't express enough how laughable the film is and this is what worries me as since I was laughing, I technically enjoyed the film at it's own expense so I really have no clue what to rate it. Yes it was enjoyable with the action sequences and frankly superb uses of the long take in those scenes but it was also so hilariously poor.
The dialogue which is at times was hard to hear was so expected that I was literally guessing the lines that would come next. Shameful. Another small gripe I had was the fact that the inhabitants of an underwater kingdom had American accents, like really?
Everything is over directed, Wan must've been saying on production that everything needs to be bigger, sillier more ridicilious as if this was his only chance to make a superhero film (which it doesn't even feel like).
Cringy dialogue, cringy close ups and cringy delivery makes Aquaman a laughably defective but still somehow entertaining few hours.
It's a must see rubbish film, like Clash of the Titans or Prince of Persia