To be blunt it wasn't a good movie. The DCEU is 2 steps behind the MCU. If this movie would have released before Black Panther, it would have been a great starting point for them. Unfortunately we already have a movie about an exotic location nobody can find that is technologically advanced from the rest of the world. We already saw a movie about a full blood king fighting a half blood family member for the crown. The acting was not great. The way it was shot had me scratching my head. It's a part of the movie where you get a shot of the female lead and it just happens to have a breeze to make her hair blow in the wind. It made me think of a head and shoulders commercial. Out of all the stories that could have been told why use a story that is almost like your rivals movie? Aquaman doesn't have that great of an origin so pick something that hasn't been done.