Wasted Potential

Rating: 4/10 (4 June 2017)

This movie is another absolute disappointment in the long lineup of bad DC movies that keep getting thrown at us by incompetent studios.
The first 30 minutes are really good and promising until we get to WWI and it all goes downhill. The movie at this point comes to a screeching halt as it tries to figure out whether it wants to be an action, comedy, campy(gal Godot cannot act), romance, drama, war or a superhero movie.
You have scenes of Chris pine repeatedly telling her NO to everything(helping villagers, soldiers, fighting, talking to generals) and it happens so much that eventually you just want Wonder Woman to send his ass flying so we can finally see her be a HERO. Instead we get romance, dancing in the snow, character sub- plots that are dropped or unnecessary, the villains acting like Nazis in WWI, forced humor, a "trying on dresses scene" and the occasional action scene. The script cannot decide if it wants Wonder Woman to be an excitable hero ready to stop the war or a moody teenage girl. The one time Chris pine's character is actually right is when she finally doesn't listen to him and runs off. Quality writing
Gal Gadot cannot act and anytime she has to say a serious line(An entire village is bombed with chemicals) it sounds laughable almost every time. Her delivery was completely wooden and at times made me wonder if this movie was trying to be campy like the 70s series. After about 2 hours it finally decides "OH! LET'S BE A ZACK SNYDER MOVIE", the REAL villain finally appears (with a porn mustache) and breaks out a mediocre final boss fight CGI schlock fest that has been done to death in every Zack Snyder DC movie.
This movie spends so much time trying to figure out which way it wants to go that in the end it goes nowhere. I had high hopes but this movie did not deliver 4/10