By Rama Gaind.
Director: James Wan, Roadshow Entertainment.
Cast: Jason Mamoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren.
One can’t ignore them: the mammoth tattoos supported by the hero. Jason Momoa is in the title roles as Arthur Curry and Aquaman.
The city of Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom where once it was home to the most advanced civilisation on earth. It is ruled by the power-hungry King Orm (Wilson) who plans to conquer the remaining oceanic people followed by the surface world … as he has a vast enemy at his disposal.
It reveals the origin story of half-human half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on a journey of his lifetime – to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be – king.
Having seen him in earlier films including Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, the opportunity is now rife for a chance to have his own source story about being half-human, half-Atlantean.
There are some winning dreamlike moments, earnest conservationist signals, famous names in supporting roles and periodic embellishments of nature, but it is slow-moving.
His parents got together in 1985, when his earthling dad Tom Curry (Temuera Morrison), while tending to his lighthouse in Massachusetts, discovered the beautiful Queen Atlanna (Kidman) unconscious on the beach, on the run from an arranged marriage in the undersea world of Atlantis.
Kidman is cast well and her willowy face and ethereal beauty make her a plausible Atlantic monarch, though unfortunately her character is sadly not present for the most of the action.
A feature of this Blu-ray is you get a chance to dive into more than 60 minutes of behind-the-scenes action with the king of the seven seas.
