Review of Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) by Nihelus — 27 Dec 2020

I can't believe the same director and many of the same writers that made the first movie made this garbage. I think this may be the single worst DC live action movie that has been made. The characters and the plot seem like they're taken directly from a teenagers fan fiction rather than from real Hollywood writers.

Every character in this movie is a terrible human being except Chris Pine's character (kinda) and the son of the main villain. Everyone. Is Diana or another woman walking down the street? Every single man they pass will start sexually harassing them. I was a police officer for nearly a decade. I know full well these types of guys exist and are more common than they should be. They're still a small percentage of people though, and Hollywood's insistence on portraying all men as evil is just getting old.

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The plot holes in the movie are hard to get past. They're so obvious they completely ruin the movie. Diana's powers are extremely inconsistent as well. When she's fighting the convoy she has the strength to push a huge truck sideways at extremely high speeds down the highway. Then a few minutes later while hanging off the side of a truck, Diana can't kick a truck to crush her over and just gives up, willing to be crushed to death. Kicking that truck over should be 100x easier than what she JUST did, or she could at just flip up onto the top of the truck she's hanging from. Diana's choice in this scene is just bizarre. Later in the movie the main villain starts granting wishes to everyone. These wishes are cursed and can be renounced. Diana's plan is to broadcast to the world (magically I guess, since she JUST destroyed the camera equipment) is to appeal to everyone's humanity to renounce their wishes. If this movie wasn't written by idiots, they would have had all wishes reversed when the main villain eventually reversed his. But no, people kept renouncing after that. What kind of naive writer thinks all those people are going to renounce their wishes? No, human beings aren't nearly that altruistic. Millions of people would think, that's for everyone else. It wouldn't hurt if I kept mine. I mean, Diana just physically fought her friend over this exact issue! On top of this, the reversals are very inconsistent. Some areas are still super trashed, while some areas are magically fixed. Worse, some actions not even connected to wishes were reversed.

Then there's the ending, where Diana meets the man she was willing to erase from existence so her boyfriend could live again. What does she do? She flirts with him! What a psychopath! This doesn't even cover all of the plot holes I found, much less the ones I read about online after watching it. I'm just tired of wasting any more of my time than I already have on this terrible movie. I truly hope the writers put SOME effort into writing a decent script for the third movie. What a disappointment.