But this Aquaman fever didn’t stop, even as the movie began to play in theaters. It wasn’t until Justice League that Aquaman truly hit the big screen and made a splash with the public, in no short part thanks to Jason Momoa’s depiction of the classic underwater superhero.įan excitement for an Aquaman solo movie shot through the roof, leading to the announcement of Aquaman for late 2018. There was an attempt to use that appearance to produce a Smallville spin-off based on Aquaman, but due to various reasons, it never happened. It got to the point where I just assumed every single conversation would be interrupted by someone suddenly blasting through the wall.Before the DCEU was pushing out movies like Justice League and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Aquaman appeared in the popular television show Smallville for a short period of time. Also-and this is an incredibly specific quibble, but trust me, it's accurate-the script relies far too heavily on scenes transitioning on a surprise explosion. There are some clever flashbacks to Arthur's training as a kid, but a combination of questionable child acting and rushed exposition keep them from landing hard enough to have any real impact on Arthur as an adult. It's these kinds logic-loops and jarring left turns that muddles Aquaman's quality. The film's massive climactic set piece is visually stunning, but it's hard to tell exactly who is killing who and why, and it's unclear if the characters themselves know, either. The script by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick ( The Conjuring 2) and Will Beall ( Gangster Squad) tries to juggle both Arthur and Mera's search for the trident with Orm's devious plans to build an army-plus all that exposition explaining the nitty-gritty history of Atlantis-which results in a back-half so packed it becomes confusing. Unfortunately, Aquaman's ambition is also eventually its undoing, story-wise. The film's first glimpse of Atlantis in all its neon-lit glory is legitimately breathtaking. pack into these crowded underwater scenes, down to the way character's hair floats around them as they talk. It's not just the magnitude of it all, either, it's the small details Wan and Co. I'd legitimately love to pause Aquaman occasionally just to take in the pet sharks, merpeople, kelp cottages, and whatever else is floating on by in the background. Every frame of the film's underwater kingdoms is bursting with life the same way a gorgeous splash page-no pun intended-in a comic book would. On his trail is David Kane ( Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), the Black Manta, a pirate rocking explosive Atlantean weaponry and a personal beef with Arthur Curry.īut the real star of Aquaman is the world that Wan, effects supervisors Charles Gibson ( Pirates of the Caribbean) and Kelvin McIlwain ( Furious 7), and a veritable army of FX technicians have created. Before Orm can wrangle together the army he needs, Arthur is tasked with tracking down the legendary trident of King Atlan ( Graham McTavish), which would give him mastery over the seven seas and prove him the rightful king of Atlantis once and for all. Because Atlantis still settles succession disputes with fights to the death but are sticklers for bureaucracy, Orm can't legally attack the land-dwellers without the support of all five underwater kingdoms. Picking up a year after nine-foot-tall kitchen utensil Steppenwolf tried to invade Earth in Justice League, Aquaman sees Arthur Curry-born of an Atlantean queen ( Nicole Kidman) and a human lighthouse keeper ( Temuera Morrison)-being called back to his native Atlantis by Mera ( Amber Heard) and Vulko ( Willem Dafoe), where Arthur's half-brother Orm (Wilson) is planning war with the surface world.
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