Great acting, sloppy plot

Rating: 4/10 (9 July 2017)

Okay, this does contain spoilers. First of all I have to say that I really like superhero films and I'm totally fine with the CGI blockbuster, action filled, hero worship thing. I'm a bit of a comic nerd as well. But I'm also a history teacher and that doesn't always mix well. Whereas I totally ship Magneto and Professor X influencing the Cuba Crisis or Captain America trying to destroy the fictional(!!) organisation called Hydra, I simply cannot accept Wonderwoman killing General Ludendorff. Why, for sanity's sake couldn't they just make up a fictional general here? One that didn't have a substantial role in events nine years after WW1 ended. And not a single critic seems to be bothered by that! I know it's difficult to keep all the historical facts straight, especially when you're not doing a history documentary, and that's alright to a certain extent. But killing off real people that played important roles later is crossing a line that just shouldn't be crossed. Apart from that I found character development to be lacking depth, which might be remedied by a director's cut, though. Gal Gadot did a really good job with her character, it just seemed that the script didn't allow her more fluent development. Chris Pine is a brilliant actor with a knack for comedic timing and expression and he delivered in this film just as he does in Star Trek, so nothing to criticize about the actors, they were great. But the story was just not good enough for them to really go deep. I was really looking forward to watching this film and it's just a little sad that it doesn't live up to my expectations