7h 15min, dec 19, 2018 y - WASHINGTON POST ‘Aquaman’ dazzles the eye, but it’s really exhausting to watch

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There are two main villains. The first (and most straightforward) one we meet is a high-tech pirate (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a man whose early defeat by Arthur/Aquaman — and the collateral death of the pirate’s father (Michael Beach) — drives him to become the cartoonish evildoer Manta, a bad guy in a bug suit with one thing on his mind: vengeance. The second antagonist has even more issues. He’s Arthur’s jealous half brother Orm (Patrick Wilson), the son of Atlanna and her royal consort Orvax, and the betrothed of Mera (Amber Heard), a Xebelian mermaid — with two legs instead of a tail, and an iridescent cat(fish)suit — who eventually leaves Orm and becomes Arthur’s squeeze. That romantic sidestory, which at times plays out like a silly, meet-cute romcom, is actually sort of entertaining, although Heard, outmatched by the screen presence of her charismatic co-star, feels like a fish out of water.

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US VA Court Documents:
- Johnny Depp Exhibit 417