I watched this 2 weeks ago or so. Definitely my best DC cinematic experience since Wonder Woman.
They mostly got this right imo. Stiry was simple but not annoyingly bad and it had a unique look, they really got this water world right imo, the creatures, cities and all looked dope. Action scenes looked good too.
In a way it reminded me to Black Panther.
While we are on the topic, Wonder Woman and most DC movies are TRASH because the hero tends to be WILDLY MORE POWERFUL than 90% of the enemies in the films.
This is why people like batman. Dude is just a man. A heavily injured and scarred man. All his enemies are WAY STRONGER THAN HIM.
Aquaman said it best "I been getting my ass kicked ever since I went looking for this trident."
That is a quest story. The hero should be the underdog. Even the regular Atlantean guard whipped his ass. Had him locked up from a couple of regular grunts. GRUNTS HOMIE. GRUNTS.
Aquaman was the first DC film that gave a shyt about a fukking narrative.
Wonder Woman was about a stupid girl who is a fukking god beating up world war 1 tech infantry that literally can shoot her dead in the face and not even hurt her. It is why NO ONE that isn't a weeb likes Superman. Dude is crazy overpowered and corny