Fatally flawed from the beginning

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2018)

I ask just one thing if a superhero movie. Entertain me.
They are meant to be fun. This wasn't.
I'm not quite sure how they managed to squeeze in so many clichÃ©s, plot holes, stolen imagery moments from other films and blatant 'twists', but they managed it.
Nothing made sense, nothing flowed, nothing was viable, the cgi was very hit & miss, the script was lazy and weak, the action sequences (especially the black manta fight) looked like they were straight out of an early 90's power rangers episode.
Creating a world is always going to be a challenge and for that reason I will excuse their iteration of Atlantis but when they actually make real world locations look like low budget film sets it worries me about the quality of the footage that hit the cutting room floor.
Ultimately I wanted to like this film. I wasn't optimistic in the slightest with dc's current strike rate but I hoped it would be good. In the end I would have walked out happier with aquaman dying at the end because at least I wouldn't have seen it coming.
This film makes suicide squad look like a success. I genuinely wouldnt sit through another showing of this film if I was given a free ticket and free nachos!