Oh you go girl, you go girl.
Being straight up and honest but I had no anticipation for this film whatsoever. The trailers were cool and Gal Gadot looked perfect for the role from what I could tell, the problem was I never really cared for the character of Wonder Woman, admittedly I don't really care for any superheroes unless your name is Batman. And with the DCEU track record being abysmal, Suicide Squad being one of the biggest disappointments since my birth, Batman V Superman just being utter shite and appreciating Man of Steel but if not really being my thing, it was easy for me to go into this film with the lowest expectations.
I can safely say this is the best 'superhero' film I've seen since 'The Dark Knight Rises'. It's not a perfect film and not even close to being on the level of the Dark Knight trilogy, it doesn't need to be though because this is hopefully the first big step into making the DCEU into something...well, simply put, better.
First off, Gal Gadot, she owns the role of Wonder Woman and can honestly say nobody could've done a better job. She sold every aspect of the character to me, whether she's killing Germans or having more of the heart felt moments with Chris Pine's character, it all works incredibly well. You do have your basic 3 ark structure when it comes to these kinds of films, Origin, Action, 1V1. But it's the moments in between all of this that makes the film special and better than the rest. I found some of the smaller moments between Diana and to feel natural and didn't come off cheesy like it so easily could have, great chemistry together and really help flesh out her character even more when she's thrown into his world and we see it through her eyes, in great comedic taste might I add.
The action scenes are also spectacular, some of the CG and green screen downs unfortunately stand out and become blatantly obvious at times, but I can almost forgive that just because of how well choreographed it all was.
My biggest flaw and sadly it seems to be like this whether it's marvel or DC; villains (minus Heath Ledgers Joker don't worry). Yet again we find another generic 'I want to kill people' villain, just found the villain characters so bland and was there just to have a 'threat' and a big fight at the end, got to have a big fight at the end of what's the point right?
All in all, I found this to be a fun action film, but with some great heartfelt moments dotted through out, more than I thought there would be and that's what made this film a little bit more special to the rest. Gal Gadot does an incredible job at playing Diana and if anything, at least we'll have her in Justice League if all else fails in that film. Saying that however, I do hope all the trashy DC films are behind us and we can move onwards and upwards.
- 8.2/10
