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Film Review - Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Film Review - Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

An overplotted, incoherent, soggy bore bereft of human interest, drowning in weightless computer generated visual effects

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Dec 22, 2023
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You know you’re in trouble when the best thing about Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom turns out to be an inferior copy of an inferior Marvel sequel. Said Marvel film, Thor: The Dark World (2013), was plagued by a troubled production history that now looks positively peachy compared with the desperate clutch of reshoots, test screen…

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