A triumphant Gal

Rating: 7/10 (4 June 2017)

Is the 4th time the charm for the DCEU? Yes. Is it a revolutionary masterpiece that all the reviews are making it out to be? HELL NO. "Wonder Woman" is directed by Patty Jenkins, who previously directed a vastly different looking Charlize Theron in the fantastic drama "Monster", which most believe to be Theron's best performance, and well, if there is one huge thing to say about "Wonder Woman", it is that Gal Gadot is pretty good as the red, white, and blue lead, which comes as a huge surprise seeing that most people consider Gadot to be a very weak actress, which there most certainly is a case for, BUT she is triumphant as our main lead. Chris Pine, who plays our main heroine's love interest is also pretty good here, both bringing charisma and a bevy laughs. The first thing you'll notice about the movie is how beautiful it looks when it comes to the glorious production and costume design. So now, let's get into the negatives that people seem to be disregarding. The film had me worried that it wouldn't be as good as people have suggested when the film starts with narration (of course) in the present(?) for some reason because, you know, Warner Bros. needs to let you know that this film is apart of a cinematic universe, I mean, it's not too bad but it really wasn't needed, then we head off to the island of the Amazonians, which looks beautiful but everything in it just falls sort of flat, we are introduced to our young Diana, who is very funny in parts but the kid's acting is just not good AT ALL, which is sometimes expected with kid actors. The cgi in this movie is just plain BAD, that plus the overuse of slo mo somewhat taints some pretty good action scenes, you can definitely tell that Patty Jenkins is a first time director in the superhero genre, (although plenty of directors don't fall into that trap like Nolan, Raimi, Singer) once we head off to London the film gets much better, it becomes a pretty good war film, it's the first time we've seen war portrayed, you know, LIKE WAR in a superhero movie, (sorry Cap) but as I said the great action scenes are tainted by bad visuals, an overabundance of slo mo, and hero shots up the wazoo. Now let's talk about the villains, the villains as expected here are absolutely terrible, just downright cartoonish, and once again we get a big cgi, explosion filled finale that gave me flashes of "Batman v. Superman". (although nowhere near as bad as that) Now does that sound like a revolutionary masterpiece to you? If so, see more movies immediately.