Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, directed by James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw, Aquaman) and written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Johnson-McGoldrick, Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, James Wan and Jason Momoa follows Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), the son of the human Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison) and the Atlantean Atlanna (Nicole Kidman).
He grows up with the experience of a human and the meta human abilities of an Atlantean. In this sequel, after failing to defeat the King of the Seas the first time, Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) uses the power of the mythical Black Trident to unleash an ancient and evil force. In an attempt to protect Atlantis and the rest of the world, Aquaman must forge an uneasy alliance with an unlikely ally and put his differences aside to prevent irreversible devastation.
James Wan, despite being a great director, has some sequences that are totally disposable and out of step even with the director himself, using incomprehensible slow-motion, something that has no artistic sense whatsoever, but is used purely for an impact scene, such as a slow-motion punch or a slow-motion scream scene. I ended up watching this movie in 3D which, to be honest, wouldn’t have changed much if I’d watched it without the glasses, because it was a very rotten and stupid idea just used to sell tickets in a “different way”.
Jason Momoa as Aquaman is basically the same thing compared to his character in the first film, being that somewhat clumsy character with a sarcastic sense of humor, Patrick Wilson as Orm ends up being the best character in the film, because you really end up seeing that the only actor who is happy working on that movie ends up being him, since the rest of the characters/cast are just there to collect their paychecks and leave. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta promises to be a totally different villain from the first movie, with a bigger threat and greater power, something that doesn’t end up being successfully developed within the movie, since in the movie the character only makes an evil face every time he appears.
The action in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom turns out to be very reasonable, nothing you’ve never seen in any other superhero movie, action that doesn’t contain any kind of innovation in the area of combat, it ignores the feeling of risk that would be extremely important for a movie where the villain would once again like to take over planet, something we’ve seen in thousands of other movies, extremely generic and predictable combat scenes to the point where you already know even the characters’ lines. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom tries to be everything, it tries to be a superhero movie, full of emotion, a family movie, super funny, packed with some drama with revenge, where in the end the movie doesn’t end up conveying any kind of feeling for the audience.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is also end of the DCEU, which began in 2013 with Man of Steel (directed by Zack Snyder) and for me in particular, I’m glad it’s over, the DCEU was never taken seriously and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom only proves this once again, where we have the whole movie throwing in your face about a supposed climate agenda on global warming where all this ends up being broken in the last scene of the movie, not only in the last scene of the movie, but also in the post-credit scene, just proving that your 2 hours watching the movie were not completely irrelevant because everything you spent your time on will come to nothing in the future, but it also makes the viewer a fool knowing that even the developers of this feature film treat Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom as a joke, the last scene and the post-credits of this movie just proves that the DCEU was a mere joke, and just makes the audience thankful that this shared universe is over once and for all, and that Warner has learned from its mistakes.
Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom is a disappointing finale to the DCEU. The movie is full of clichés, slow-motion, and wasted potential. The actors look bored, the villain is bland, and the plot is nonsensical. The movie tries to be everything and ends up being nothing. Save your time and money.
Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom releases in theaters on December 22.
