DC finally gets going

Rating: 7/10 (2 June 2017)

What's going on: We see Diana Prince at her current job, working at the Louvre, and then launch into the backstory that sees her leaving the island of the Amazons and heading off to turn the tide of World War I. The journey starts with a fairly large dollop of exposition on Zeus and the Greek gods, then on Ares--the main troublemaker--then heads to the crash of Steve Trevor's plane, which catalyzes Diana to head off to war in an attempt to find Ares and end his corrupting influence in the world. So, this movie is one large flashback. The problem with flashbacks is that they remove all worry over our hero, since he/she is clearly fine in the present.
The plot does have its logical issues, but the story is easily the strongest of any recent DC efforts. Notably, Zack Snyder didn't write this screenplay, and that's a positive thing. Gal Gadot does a fine job portraying Diana and showing her character's child-like delight in discovering the world she's never seen. Ice cream especially. Action scenes are really good. No problems there.
Back to plot logic issues. Ares is a big question mark as to what's going on with his character. We find out he despises humanity and resents Zeus, which led to the original spat with the other gods that ended them. Ares likes to prove humans are destructive prats, so he goes around prodding them toward warfare. Since the other gods are now gone, that eliminates his motivation to thumb his nose at Zeus.
Ares then states he wants to rid the world of humanity and return everything to a much nicer state--a pitch he makes to Diana at one point. Ares is a powerful Greek god. Why not just wipe out humanity and skip the behind-the-scenes prodding to give humans ideas on how to make weapons? Ares also seems to work against his own interests in various parts of the film by helping our heroes along. Other than providing a plot twist, why does he do that? Then there's the casting of our main villain, which didn't quite fit, but I suppose that's a matter of taste.
Anyway, Wonder Woman is worth seeing. It's much better than Batman v. Superman by miles, and the recent DC films before it. Toss the logic for a few hours and watch Gal Gadot beat the tar out of the bad guys.