Saw it down in Lincoln last night. It's long. 2 & 1/4 hours. It doesn't move very fast. Lots of really pretty CGI work creating Atlantis under water. Lots of combat, chases, smashing and crashing. Much of the movie is underwater down in Atlantis. The underwater bit is convincing, the actor's hair waves gently in water currents, they float in the water, feet not touching the floor. Lots of battle scenes, actors riding huge unlikely sea beasts. When the sea beasts take enough hits from energy weapons they burst into flames, under water, which is a little confusing. There is a plot, Aquaman must retrieve a lost magical trident. We only learn this halfway thru the movie. Aquaman's girlfriend Mera has really outstanding bright red hair. Brighter and redder than anything I ever saw on stage or in real life. I kept wondering how they did that. Was it a superior hair dresser? A wig? Digital retouching with a professional movie maker's version of Photoshop? It was striking no matter how they did it. Nicole Kidman played Aquaman's mother, starting by falling in love with Somebody-or-Other Curry, a Maine light house keeper. She is as cute as Mera. Nobody addresses anyone by name in the movie, I had to go to IMDB to find the stage names.
The camera man did turn the lights on, and all the scenes were watchable, no black on black mystery scenes. Sound man was adequate but not great. The guy who did Spiderman was better, but I caught most of the dialog.
Lots of hand to hand combat, fighters tossed each other tremendous distances, landing with a hard crash that ought to have killed an elephant, but everybody bounces right up and goes for another fall. Atlantians (except Aquaman) wore armor and carried energy weapons. Aquaman was into tridents and the bare chest look.
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