20 Worst DCEU Movie Moments (So Far)

19. The Tsunami - Aquaman

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Aquaman is a thrilling, visually brilliant and genuinely heart-warming superhero film that, despite its generic story and excessive run-time, is a very worthy blockbuster that's easy to enjoy and has some of the DCEU's best moments... but a few of its worst too.

One early scene which really doesn't work is this one, in which Mera (Amber Heard) has to save Aquaman and his father (Temuera Morrison, who Star Wars fans will recognise as Jango Fett) from a huge tsunami.

Aquaman benefits from its epic scale, but this particular moment is just a bit too ridiculous and the special effects and spectacle here feel overdone. There's also the ludicrous way in which Aquaman's car is able to outrun the tsunami at first, which is of course completely implausible.

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