Best delivery of superficial slogans ever, with the right amount of pathos

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2017)

It's a good film, firstly because it has an abundance of humanity and human feeling to it. It's something often forgotten in the DC comics, because unlike marvel, it centers on the heroic part. That's the reason, DC characters, are so much better in TV series than they are in their drawn version or in their cinematic version. In the extended TV versions, there's no choice but to develop the personal life - the human part of the super heroes. Yes I know it's an over simplified generalization, but as a rule that's the main difference between Marvel's superheroes, and the DC ones, except Batman, where the line between the hero and the human is all but nonexistent. And that's why Batman movies did work better than any other DC movies we know about. Yes, there's another short lived exception to this rule that is the first two movies of Christopher Reeve's Superman, where they managed to counter the pomposity with the right amount of campiness. It was a very fine balance, and a very hard one to maintain. It took some very fine acting and a very careful script, and they half lost it by the 3rd one, not to mention the 4th.
So here we have a first human DC superhero, in a long while. And it's a combined effort. Gal Gadot is mostly great, but she's still a rookie, and does have two or three off moments, during the film, so here comes the director and the editing, not to mention the other stellar cast, they all cover for her, making sure the movie stays true. Making sure that all the melodrama, is balanced, some jokes at the right moment also help, but the truth is that the humor is very limited. Compare it with most of Marvel's productions and you'll see I'm right. It's simply more humorous than recent DC movies, but that's easy. It's once again a fine balance kept by a combined effort of the entire production.
And here I return to my title. Why do I say Gal Gadot is great despite her few off moments during the film. Because she delivers the most superficial pompous slogans with such conviction, you don't really feel how banal they were, until you rethink the whole thing. Not many veterans of the trade can get away with it, she does. All she still has to do is polish her act a bit more and she'll be one of the best