Could have just as easily been a superman story, or spiderman, or batman, or....

Rating: 5/10 (3 September 2017)

I do wonder when the superhero theme will lose it's appeal. Every story is much the same when it comes right down to it.
Wonder Woman starts off OK, you see the island that the warrior women are on and a snippet of their training and warrior ways. You get a bit of a background on how they came to be.
Soon it jumps to World War 1, whether it is WW1 period where the island is or the island is in it's own time zone I am not sure. The Warrior women haven't advanced beyond the bronze age though as they prepare to fight the invading German's who have pierced some kind of invisible cloak into their world still use swords and horse cavalry.
And why is it always the Germans in these films? How cliché has that become? Especially in films set in WW2, what about the Japanese? The Russians? The Italians? The Turks?
WW then befriends an American spy and goes off to the real world to fight war himself. Or so she thinks. It starts going from mildly interesting to cliché comic book about here.
WW is a pacifist but a warrior. She is a warrior but shocked by how much more brutal war is in the real world then her home island where they trained for war as if it were B grade sexploitation gladiator flick.
She is shocked to find that the people (mostly men) aren't as perfect as she seemingly is. She criticizes the Scottish sniper for not being able to shoot, yet she is a pacifist.
On the front line she charges into German machine gun fire, German soldiers too stupid or poorly trained to aim for her mostly unprotected legs.
And how is it that these Goddesses can die from gun shots anyway?
And so it goes on. For the inevitable show down which looks just as boring and over the top as most super hero films.
Ho hum.