Review of Wonder Woman (2017) by Definitelymayb — 01 Jun 2017

For large parts of this film, Wonder Woman is truly a 'beautiful' film made of love and care like its titular character. But sadly like most of its DCEU counterparts, Wonder Woman quickly degenerates into a rudderless shlock filled with CGI that looks like it came straight out of menstruation, film logic as irrational as a girl on her period and an abortion of a plot. Indeed, for much of the hype surrounding this film, sadly, Wonder Woman is not as 'wonderful' as one might think to have watched. Pros of the film:

-Acting is superb on most part of the film (apart from the over the top villains and bizzare accents (or lack of an accent on Chris Pine's part) for most of the cast tries to attempt). This is the first DCEU film I recall for a genuine connection to see. Gal Gadot is superb in this role and the scenes with her and Chris Pine are the standouts of the film.

-That said, the best parts of the film isn't the action nor villains, it is indeed the love that develops between Diana and Trevor which is both incredibly funny and heartwarming. I haven't seen this good chemistry since the last Superman Return film.

-There is real comedy here, unlike the **** SNL skit that was GOTG vol. 2. Characters actually speak logically and make sense in the jokes they make that because Wonder Woman is a naive character and thrust upon our immoral world.

- Some great camera work by the director. - Soundtrack was great. Although it is generic on most part, it actually complimented the scenes really well. - Pacing of the film actually is quite good. There's not really a lot of fat.

-Feminism done right. I know many people will get triggered about the word, but most people really never have studied feminism don't understand what it means. By what I mean feminism is that it isn't some **** of a girl harping how powerful she is or how equal they want, feminism is in fact a critical theory on the social norms we have. Why Wonder Woman is a great feminist film because this film actually asks good question. For example *SPOILERS*, in one scene, she questions why the generals all sit there and not fighting with the soldiers. In another scene, and rather poignant, she and Steve trevour are dancing in the snow and Steve recalls how marriage and life is pretty meaningless and how he doesn't even know if he will get married. For a while, these are the moments what makes Wonder Woman great and stand out as being just another popcorn flick. Now sadly, here are the bad points about this film, and there are many unfortunately. - Once they arrive to the front line, the film literally falls apart. The problem is that we never get a sense why they are there, apart from some dialogue about them either stopping the general-whats-his-name (played by Danny Huston) and Dr poison (but more like doctor dialogue) from signing a peace treaty or I don't know really. There's like a scene where she walks in front of the trench and then saves a village but we never really get a sense why and what etc. It's more like they just jam in these scenes because they literally ran out of ideas.

- Villains are rubbish. Sorry to Danny Huston, but he just bumbles his way in his performance and his presence is unconvincing and cumbersomely put together. Dr Poison is severly wasted as a character because apart from throwing a poison grenade in the scene we have all seen already, she does nothing apart from dialogue. When the 'real' villain comes up, he just appears suddenly so that we can have our 'climatic fight'

**** action. Again, if you like your action to be all in slow motion and where literally its just your heroes shooting faceless soliders - then yeah... Also the final fight is boring, explosions here and there, oh a villain with so many powers... yea just a mess. -Lazy film logic. My mate and I laughed out in one very lazy edited scene *Spoiler*. Basically Wonder woman stabs the general on top of the roof before encountering the other main villain. At this point she doenst have her sword (because she reaches for it). However, instead of showing her grab it, we basically cut to another scene briefly before the following scene shows her having it. It is laughlinly bad because the audience is led to believe the villain just stood there for her to go back up to get it before coming back down in the space of a shot. *Spoilers* Trevor also commits sucide at the end despite various ways he could've not blown the plane he was in carrying bomb ie landed the plane, dump the gas in ocean, jump off with parachute (assuming every fuking plane has parachute) or you know just blow up the plane. -The side characters are comedic relief at best. I love the french dude, but everyone else seems pointless and waste of screen time. You have a sniper character that never fires a single shot, and an american indian for no reason at all.

- CGI is **** There literally a scene early on where you see Robin Whyte character CGI on done by a 12 year old.