Looks really good, old-fashioned in a good way, and the two stars are charming

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2017)

Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana (Gal Gadot), princess of the Amazons. When a pilot on the run (Chris Pine) crashes near their island paradise and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars. Yes, another superhero movie, and the titular heroine is not a minor one. WW made her first comics appearance in October 1941 and has been in publication almost continuously after that. Constant reader has probably noticed that superhero movies are not my cup of tea, mostly because of lack of originality. So many of them are origin stories, like we really cared about how they came about. So many are shamelessly copying each other on grassroots level, especially 2001's Iron Man" which established a blueprint that no one wants to deviate from. And I'm especially tired of big fights which are always consisting of flying through air and punching each other, destroying stuff in the process, including houses. How many times do I have to watch the same f*cking thing, year after year? Having said that, I actually quite like the Wonder Woman" movie. It looks really good, old-fashioned in a good way, and the two leading stars are charming. Chris Pine is effective as the new Indiana Jones era Harrison Ford the world has been waiting for. But most of the attention and praise goes to Gal Gadot as Diana. She's just wonderful indeed: beautiful, in good ass-kicking shape and also good at displaying subtle sense of humor which goes long way when the Amazon princess has to meet the modern world (during the World War I). My biggest concern is the quite lenghty final chapter of the story where the bad guy comes into play. In this part of the movie one can't deny anymore that the main character's philosophy is shallow and underdeveloped even by the standards of Facebook Deep we live in. And the final battle is, of course, as generic as they come in modern superhero movies, consisting mostly flying through air and punching each other, destroying stuff in the process. Remember how Charlize Theron got an Oscar for 2003's Monster"? This is actually the director Patty Jenkins's first movie job after that, in the meantime she has done mostly TV and this one anthology. Welcome back, great job!