It’s a Duplication Festival at the movies this week, with “Rebel Moon — Part 1” rehashing “Star Wars” and “Seven Samurai” while “Anyone But You” plays like a greatest-hits compilation of rom-com tropes and “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” is a depressingly uninspired superhero adventure sequel that leans heavily on plot points and battle sequences we’ve seen in at least a dozen other films in the genre — and almost always done better.
This is the 15th and final film in this version of the DCEU, which actually had a good run for a stretch with the likes of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Wonder Woman,” the first “Aquaman” and “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)” but has sputtered to the finish line with the lightweight and unmemorable clunkers “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and “Blue Beetle,” the passably entertaining but overlong “The Flash” and now this going-through-the-paces victory lap for Jason Momoa’s wisecracking, Guinness-drinking, motorcycle-riding, good-time bro Arthur Curry/Aquaman.
