Lame and uninspired

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2017)

I am not going to criticize the dusty concept of Wonder Woman or the story as it is quite true to the original comic books. I am only very tired of seeing another movie where a superhero fights Nazis. A felt 50% of all super hero movies are against Nazis...this is truly becoming very old. The Nazis are always depicted the same way, with crazy scientists, megalomanianiac generals andtotally incompetent foot soldiers.
The first 30 minutes of the movie show the story of the Amazons and their antagonist Ares, the childhood of Diana and contain a lot of talking among the Amazons about whether Ares is ever going to find them or not. A british soldier shows up and has to be saved by Diana from a bunch of itiot Nazi soldiers. Then we have some awkward scenes and dialogues between Diana and the soldier Steve Trevor that clearly aim at the fact that Diana has never before seen a male human, let alone half naked. In reverse Steve is also taken off-guard by the barely clad and beautiful Diana. In the press critics wrote how well this movie deals with issues like feminism and the depiction of the amazons not being pure sexual objects. Well, I want to disagree, there is no way to do that in a movie that is about half-naked warrior women. It could have been much worse, but I don't think that this is an aspect the movie should be praised for.
After almost an hour of runtime Diana and Steve enter London and society. All of a sudden Diana turns into a clumsy and helpless girl that can't find her way around modern society. I think she would suffer from some sort of culture shock (like running into carts on the street) but she would not stubbornly insist on hunting down Ares with her sword in her hand while facing so many, quite obviously important, men around her. She has a mission and she is without fear, but she isn't ignorant or dumb. She would notice that things outside of her island have changed dramatically and that she would have to learn and get by with this world and it's inhabitants, instead of ignoring them and trying to find Ares alone right on the spot. Her behaviour during these scenes is totally unbelievable to me.
The movie rumbles on and starts building up an adventuring group to help her on her task. These sidekicks turn out to be totally useless and incompetent guys, that are ought to be funny, but are annoying most of the time. During the entire movie they are no help at all, instead they are a burden to Diana as she feels responsible to prevent them form getting themselves killed.
After a lengthy intermezzo at the Nazi castle, where Diana carries a longsword "hidden" below her evening dress in a way that makes my back hurt and wonder how the blade adapts itself to her body curves, we enter the showdown after almost two and a half hours. Ares turns out to be a british Lord with a mighty mustache trying to create a better world by destroying the existing one. The death of Steve unleashes the full powers of Diana and she defeats the God of War pretty effortlessly. The surviving useless sidekicks and Diana take a photo to remember the day and the movie is finally over.
I have seen nothing new in this flick. No new aspects of super heroism, no extraordinary acting (although Gal Gadot is quite good, just her role isn't), no interesting or creative plot or adversaries. It's the tenth warm-up of an old recipe and just there for the sake of having a Wonder Woman movie in the repetoire. Humans in the film are just decoration or cannon-fodder, its actually a duell of Diana and Ares stretched out painfully over more than 2 hours.
All in all I think this is a quite bad movie as it is dull, uninspired and flat on all levels of film making. It is not even popcorn cinema as it is too long and has too many boring scenes for that. To be fair I would give it 5 points but never 7 or more.