ODEON Magazine 107 November/December 2018 | Page 11

MUST-SEE OF THE MONTH Aquaman TBC DC’s Dweller in the Depths goes solo – and the result is a wet and wild gem! DIRECTOR James Wan starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman See it in IMAX and iSense Back in 2011, when Jason Momoa hit the radar as berserker warlord Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, we all had the same thought: “Give that man a movie!” Well, DC Comics did, and now, as Aquaman, the star repays their faith with a performance so intense he even manages to smoulder underwater. Momoa plays Arthur Curry (aka Aquaman): heir to the aquatic kingdom of Atlantis, and blessed with the abilities to breathe underwater and shoot the breeze with sea creatures. Less fortunately, he’s also the long-suffering half-brother to Orm (Patrick Wilson): a supervillain whose plot to seize the throne for himself and conquer the surface world has led director James Wan to describe this much-anticipated movie as “a classic Shakespearean story of sibling rivalry”. Unlike Shakespeare, though, Aquaman serves up some of the best edge-of-the-seat action you’ll see this year, as Wan (whose previous work includes Furious 7) pulls out the stops with tidal waves, sub battles, shark armies and rampaging seahorses. But even with all those weird and wonderful beasts, there’s no upstaging a solid- gold cast that includes Amber Heard as Aquaman’s feisty love-interest Mera and Nicole Kidman as his mother Queen Atlanna. Dive in. 14 DEC MOV IE M ATHEM ATICS + Land + Sea + Heir Showdown = Aquaman Watch the trailer or when accompanied by an adult 15 Suitable for ages 15+ 18 Adults only odeon.co.uk 11