Review of Wonder Woman (2017) by Player2-Water — 29 Dec 2018

E-Value: 9.

Acting: 9.

Plot: 8 It has been a long time since superheroines have their own solo movies on the big screen. Throughout the years of superhero genre, their male counterparts have been dominating the big screen and no movie studiosE-Value: 9.

Acting: 9.

Plot: 8.

It has been a long time since superheroines have their own solo movies on the big screen. Throughout the years of superhero genre, their male counterparts have been dominating the big screen and no movie studios wanted to do superheroines movie due to fear of underperformance such as 1984’s Supergirl and 2005’s Elektra. The fourth instalment in DC Extended Universe features another famous DC Comics’ iconic superheroine, Wonder Woman, in her very first solo movie as the lead character after her big screen debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Sometimes after fighting alongside Batman and Superman in Metropolis and the latter’s death, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman (Gadot) returns back to her normal life in Paris, France where she works as antique curator. She receives a package from Wayne Enterprise and it turns out to be an old photograph of herself and her old allies during World War I which was stolen by Lex Luthor previously. Seeing the old photograph, she recalls her past about her early life and her activities during World War I.

Diana was born and raised in a hidden and mystical island called Themyscira. When she grew up, she was trained as an Amazon warrior by her aunt, General Antiope, although her mother, Queen Hippolyta, was initially reluctant to have her train as warrior. One day, Diana rescued an American pilot named Steve Trevor (Pine), who crashed land on the island while escaping from the German Army. When they caught up to Steve, both him and Diana were joined by the Amazons to fight off the soldiers. Unfortunately, General Antiope was killed in battle.

Steve was interrogated by Queen Hippolyta, which he revealed that the German Army led by General Erich Ludendorff (Huston) and his chief scientist, Dr. Isabel Maru, were developing a new biochemical weapons which will turn the tides of World War I. Steve had stolen Dr. Maru’s notebook containing information about the weapons and he must bring it to his superiors in London, England. Believed that the war was caused by the God of War, Ares, Diana joined Steve on his mission and to stop Ares for good.

Since her debut in the second instalment of the franchise, I knew that Wonder Woman is going to be amazing and I even hope that she will do well in her solo movie. Not only she is able to break the curse of superheroine movies being a failure, she definitely can be as good as her male counterparts.

The performance of Gal Gadot and Chris Pine is amazing. Their on-screen chemistry with each other is very natural and it worked out very well. It is a very good thing that she was not over-sexualised for the sake of fanservice. It would have ruined the quality of the movie. Patty Jenkins deserved to be praised for her direction of this movie and made superheroine movie worth to watch. I really cannot imagine what this movie would have been if this movie is directed by male directors.

The storyline of the movie is good but the villains of this movie lacked character development. Nevertheless, this movie is still fun to watch and it is really worth your time. If you think superheroine movies are bad, this one will definitely will change your mind. Hopefully, this movie will inspire other movie studios to make superheroine movies in the future.