I think the B- is a fair grade. Honestly this movie cannot hold up by itself without the first movie as context. The Thor and Loki bond the two brothers share in the movie was nice but it's obvious the writers wanted this to feel like an MCU movie in some areas. They played this movie too safe. I didn't like that each time a major character was about to die a family member saved them. It's like the movie was afraid to kill people off. The main antagonist was kind of a letdown and was defeated too easily and he lacked an interesting motivation. He wasn't even necessary. This should've been a movie with 100% Black Manta and Aquaman settling the score. It would've been cool if Manta and Aquaman reached some type of resolution since it's likely we'll never get a third installment. They could've had a deadly battle with Aquaman saying he regretted not saving the Manta's father. Maybe they could have had Manta start a new family of his own and have him conflict with revenge and starting a new life. That would've been great too but oh well. Manta failed to realize, him and his dad were hurting people for their own selfish gain. It was only a matter of time that karma would return to him. I would have liked if he had to face that reality.
All are great points, especially about Manta’s development and settling the score with Aquaman. Yeah, we’ll never fully have a Manta-Aquaman conflict resolution.
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I think the B- is a fair grade. Honestly this movie cannot hold up by itself without the first movie as context.
The Thor and Loki bond the two brothers share in the movie was nice but it's obvious the writers wanted this to feel like an MCU movie in some areas. They played this movie too safe.
I didn't like that each time a major character was about to die a family member saved them. It's like the movie was afraid to kill people off.
The main antagonist was kind of a letdown and was defeated too easily and he lacked an interesting motivation. He wasn't even necessary. This should've been a movie with 100% Black Manta and Aquaman settling the score.
It would've been cool if Manta and Aquaman reached some type of resolution since it's likely we'll never get a third installment. They could've had a deadly battle with Aquaman saying he regretted not saving the Manta's father. Maybe they could have had Manta start a new family of his own and have him conflict with revenge and starting a new life. That would've been great too but oh well.
Manta failed to realize, him and his dad were hurting people for their own selfish gain. It was only a matter of time that karma would return to him. I would have liked if he had to face that reality.
All are great points, especially about Manta’s development and settling the score with Aquaman. Yeah, we’ll never fully have a Manta-Aquaman conflict resolution.