Just A Terrible Movie Unless You're A Fan With Blinders On

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2017)

Wonder Woman as a film is quite bad. Don't believe the fanboys or feminists who are trying to con you in to thinking otherwise. I think they wanted it to be good so badly that they may be even fooling themselves. While it's not as bad as BvS or Suicide Squad, it's still dreadful in its execution.
(spoiler-free) The bad:

Almost every line uttered is a cliché with bad humor injected at all the wrong times.

The movie is full of loud-music, blinding-colors, Zack Snyderesque slow-mo, and it follows Snyder's lead delivering truly cringe-worthy dialogue.

The villain is shallow as can be. They try and set it up as some sort of huge twist in terms of who the villain is, but you can see it coming and when it's revealed it packs no punch at all.

The plot is as dumb as the other DCEU efforts to date. Most if not all plot devices are shortcuts and are so badly introduced into the story that it honestly takes you out of the movie if you value story over whiz bang effects.

Speaking of effects, the CGI is shockingly bad, especially the battle scenes. It's very unnatural, like the "wire-fu" or "Charlie's Angels" days of defying physics and gravity. Blurry background and shaky cam are the worst.

The overall story telling is as stereotypical as it gets. I know it's a period piece but the big bad, the awkward love story and the hyper-feminist overtones all jumble in to one big mess.

The attempted balance of humor and darkness fails. It had to be a result of orders from higher ups that wanted to try and inject some Marvel movie type sensibilities. Be a leader, not a follower.

Gal Gadot was as bad as expected. SO wooden, she simply can't act.

The movie could have cut 30 minutes and no one would have known.

The good:

Chris Pine. Great acting and overall performance.

The first act with life with the Amazons was interesting delivering a nice set up.

Forced humor or not, a few jokes did land. Not a great batting average but it was something.

Gal Gadot may not be able to act but she is sexy as can be and does deliver believable action.

Overall, I didn't like the movie and I doubt anyone but the rabid fanboy/girls will think very highly of this wasted effort of a movie.