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Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2017)

I am somewhat surprised by the overwhelming female reaction to Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, seeing as she is the product of a distraught 1940's shrink and his BDSM fantasy woman, designed to save him from WWII while domming him with her knee high boots and truth extracting bondage rope. Gal G. pulls in a serviceable work on the big WW, bringing the required 'foreign' tang to her, the cheeky hints of sexuality, and leaving the 'Americanized' parts in the garbage where they belong. Despite the length of this movie, there is precious little time spent on any 'splainin' to her main sidekick, the very boytoy designed Chris Pine, who asks painfully few questions and is nearly 100% obsessed with sex when they are not shooting evil Germans. Why does Diana grow up yet her other Amazons do not? Why are there no boytoy men as playthings on the island? Why is their solution to war violence? I wonder how this movie will play in Germany, who are apparently made to be evil by a malicious god of war, Ares. German soldiers are dispatched like cockroaches in short order by our supposed heroine. We are not told that the British also used poison gas in WWI, and this is made a strictly German horror, spurred on by a demonic Greek god hiding in the wings... as David Thewlis. It's painfully obvious from the moment he starts his 'Chamberlain peace in our Time' speech that Thewlis is the real evil in sheep's clothing. However, for some completely bizarre reason, the director KEEPS HIM IN CHARACTER after he reveals himself as the God of War. So we have a super powered god of war flying around, with David Thewlis's face and British accent. It is so cringe-worthy it destroys the entire battle sequence at the end of the movie. Amazing fight visuals, the best being WW's attack on a German WWI trench, and second being the complete slaughter of a poor hapless band of German shipwreck survivors at the beginning of the movie, who feel the strange need to fight to the last man against an army of super- model women, I guess again, because Ares is making them 'evil'. A strange and not at all well-written movie, and yet, visually a treat. There you go.