Despite mostly positive reviews - i was not impressed

Rating: 4/10 (9 July 2017)

I heard a lot of good reviews about this movie - and how it might save the DC franchise.... but i cannot agree.
The story was really, REALLY bad. While having a nice framework of "who is good, who is bad", "is men good or bad by design, innocent but manipulated by higher forces" etc. it gets lost in exposition, a rather scattered assortment of scenes and bad guys that are not memorable.
A big disappointment was Ares - mostly because i could not look past seeing Remus Lupin from Harry Potter there. I do like the actor but his performance was weak, not at all menacing - not in a sense of godly power, nor in the sense of manipulating intelligence or even arrogance. He was just Lupin in a silly costume made of too much bad CGI.
The setting of WW1 could have been good - if it had actually described WW1. The characteristic of the desolate no-mans-land, the stalemate and the human meat grinder was only really pointed out in a short scene - and then quickly forgotten. The rest could have been a stock WW2 battle, too.
The movie itself had pacing issues in my opinion. It started with the childhood of wonder woman on her home island. At that point - the story was coherent and compact - with few but memorable characters. Once she left the island though...... the story began to dissolve into small scenes of quickly changing locations. There was no connection with the new characters (the members of the team), no connection to the village they "liberated" - and the enemy side was just a bunch of weak villains.
All in all ... i had more fun watching Batman vs. Superman ... and i did not really enjoy that very much either.
It is a shame, because i think that Wonder Woman herself was well acted and done in that movie - only the story was bad (i have seen many MUCH better ones from the DC animated movie features in the past years - so i know they CAN tell good stories) - But a superhero is only as good as the villain they fight... and the villain was disappointing.