![]() ![]() ![]() To both the movie's benefit and detriment, the seas here are choppier than in the predictably (and sometimes boringly) smooth sailing of a Marvel movie. "Aquaman" weighs in somewhere between the lugubrious "Justice League" and the less leaden "Wonder Woman" on the uneven scales of recent DC films. It's surely the only movie around where you can enjoy a floating Willem Dafoe (as Vulko, royal counselor to Atlantis ruler Orm, played by Patrick Wilson), see a gladiatorial showdown sounded by an octopus on drums and, in one of the many scenes where water is weaponized, witness death by Chianti, in a tussle that tumbles into a Sicilian wine store. There are pleasures in Wan's extravagant underwater pageant. So why is "Aquaman" so soggy with Atlantis mythology and drowning in special effects when all it really needs to do is let Momoa's Aquaman rock? As Momoa showed on his recent "Saturday Night Live" hosting gig, his charisma is as formidable as his brawn. "Permission to come aboard?" he says with a sly, over-the-shoulder grin. In James Wan's waterlogged, fitfully entertaining "Aquaman," a heavy metal guitar riff blares at our first close-up of the long-haired, much-tattooed, shirtless Momoa.
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