Review of Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) by Theredsky — 11 Jan 2021

A massive slap in the face to what made the first movie decent. Everything here is even more boring than the first film plus the two and a half hour long runtime makes this film hard to get through. I was almost never interested in what was happening.

There was a cool action scene in the desert and anything with Pedro Pascal was kinda entertaining but that was it. Gal Gadot does a worse job here than in the original Wonder Woman. For reference, I thought she was okay in the first Wonder Woman.

Chris Pine was good in this but his reasoning for being in the film was dumb and he didn’t serve any purpose to the plot other than their chemistry was good in the first film. Their chemistry here is still good but Gadot’s weak performance stains it a little bit.

Chris Pine is only in the movie for about less than 50% of the runtime. His appearance was pointless and they shouldn’t have included him at all. I thought Pedro Pascal did a good job with the material even though his villain is absolutely terrible.

He doesn’t have any interesting motivations or ideas other than I wanna be all powerful. Pascal did a great job at making his villain incredibly over the top which at least made the film watchable when he was on screen.

Hans Zimmer’s score was good too although it’s significantly weaker than his other musical scores. The films story is incredibly cliched and nonsensical with everyone getting what they wished for and absolutely no one wishes for certain things to happen? There is a wall that is put up in the Middle East and not one person in the world wishes for it to be taken down? It doesn’t make any sense.

Since the film takes place in the 1980’s, I expected the film’s tone and visuals to be reminiscent of that era but there was almost nothing that told you this was the 80’s except the music and the cars.

They could have made this movie so much better by leaning much much more into the 80’s tone but it chooses to go on the safe, predictable route. If you like the DCEU then you might get something out of this but any average movie fan can skip this and not worry about missing out on anything.