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Dolby Vision helps to create a vivid extravaganza of colour and mythology while tethering every shot with authenticity. The following moment, sub-titled ‘somewhere in the North Sea’, is one of many set pieces in the film where the image opens up to the 1.85:1 IMAX ratio, filling the entire screen, first with darkness as we focus in on David Kane's aggrieved expression sat on his Manta-Sub and then flooding it with light as the surrounding water froths with cyan, amethyst and co-ordinated Atlantean soldiers. In the night time dock side scene where Amber Heard's Mera tries to persuade Aquaman to come to Atlantis, the texture of the character's skin, hair and costumes are superbly tactile in the dark while the pops of neon-coloured lamps flicker away in the background. And whether it's delicate shafts of light or the detailed debris around explosions, the underwater world feels as real and tangible as dry land.īut above ground looks pretty great too. Black levels are appropriately deep at the bottom of the ocean but the image never becomes murky. One of the film’s great feats is balancing a fantastical colour palette with intense undersea darkness. Even at its most bonkers and baroque, the technical prowess of the visuals ties together the locations and conceit of what would otherwise be an unwieldy story, employing vivid CGI, hyper unrealism and an unabashed sense of spectacle. Whatever your opinions on laboured plots, awkward sub plots and a frankly excessive number of primary characters, there’s no denying that the film is stunning to watch. To defeat his brother, Aquaman has to (among other things) retrieve the Trident of Atlan and embrace his destiny. And not just any old Atlantean, he's the heir to the subterranean throne of what was once the most advanced civilisation on Earth, now controlled by his megalomaniac half brother. The film covers the origin of Aquaman, who is born on dry land and thinks he's just regular guy Arthur Curry who happens to have a way with fish, until discovering that he is in fact half-human, half-Atlantean. DC Comics’ Aquaman somehow manages to be both and as a result its reception when it was released was divisive. Superhero films sometimes seem to fall into two categories: overly sincere and ludicrously tongue in cheek.

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