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Aquaman - Movie Review

Jason Momoa

I remember the first time seeing Jason Momoa play Ronon Dex on Stargate: Atlantis. I recently bing watched Game of Thrones. Most probably are trying to forget his Conan the Barbarian even though I thought it was pretty good. When I first saw that he was going to play Aquaman, I felt they could have not chosen a better actor for the part.

Now to get in trouble with all the Jason Momoa fans. All these characters are the same brooding, muscle bound characters that are street smart but sometimes oblivious to everything else. Either he has been typecast or that is the range of his acting. At least Braven, his character was slightly different but not much. Don't get me wrong. Jason Momoa will probably go down as the the one true Aquaman just like Christopher Reeve will be known for Superman and Hugh Jackman will be known for Wolverine. I would just like to see him show more acting range.

Movie Review

Aquaman is one of the top two DCU movies out there. Many argue which is the better movie between Wonder Woman and Aquaman. Gal Gadot has my vote that Wonder Woman was the better movie. It was my daughter that explained of course it was a good movie, DC copied Marvel's Black Panther movie. Granted there are way too many similarities between the two movies to wonder if this is not true but the fact both are big production movies that came out ten months apart make it more likely they just using a typical superhero story arc. Regardless of what you might think about that, I loved Aquaman movie. There were several great casting choices in this movie. All give great performances. Despite the DCU failings, Aquaman 2 is currently schedule for 2022 release date. I suspect we will probably see an Aquaman 3 as well.

Movie Rating

I rate this at least a HD movie. I would recommend it for under $10. I did get this in HD for $9 from UltraCloudHD when it first came out.

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