Okay, In Spite of Some Irritants

Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2018)

Let's just say right off the bat that WW isn't my favorite comic book hero: Questionable hybrid between bunny-suited tart and a feminist (as viewed by a conservative writing team), with dull powers, dull story arcs, dull supporting cast and dull enemies. At best she was Superman with breasts - at worse, she was also Superman with breasts.
When Gal Gadot was announced as the next WW, my first instinct was indifference, then when I saw her in BvS I regretted the occasion to have a real colossal woman to play the role, you know, with muscles and breasts. But with this movie I warmed up to Gadot, who plays her role without a shadow of arrogance, and that marvellous voice of her. Her presence, along with DC/Snyder having cleared a bit the mess that was her origins, was one of the good things about this movie.
Another one was to set said origins in a WWI setting, less overdone than the WWII one, but, alas, they couldn't do better than create "WWI nazis" to make Germans the bad guys again instead of the would-be victims of an ancient deity's manipulations. The plight of English soldiers is, it seem, easy to empathize when compared to the Germans' treatment as half-animals. Was that another Kosher Hollywood swipe at Germany?
And since we're there, did we really need another American in the de facto lead role? How come he was calling the shots in an English setting? Are we to the point where the US public couldn't care less about a movie if the main hero isn't a Yank, even if the action takes place in medieval times, for exemple? That being said Chris Pine did a great job, a bit at the expense of the titular character, and he was certainly more memorable than the other sidekicks.
Another good point were the action scenes, where DC is finally getting on par with Marvel in this rather important part of a super-hero flick, except that they are rather one-sided and have this irritating "bullet time" slo-mo switch that passes off as "super-speed". This was counter-balanced by the rather poor scenario, where everything is telegraphed miles in advances. Humor is subtle. Photo and music is okay.
In conclusion, this movie is part of DC's getting up to Marvel's incontested cinematographic supremacy (along with BvS), against pretty much all odds as predicted disasters were common in the elaboration of a WW franchise. But here, it's clearly a step in the right direction.