Mixing fantasy with actual history is a big no-no

Rating: 3/10 (11 September 2017)

Wonder Woman, for me, was overall just a ludicrous movie.
It began as most superhero movies do, setting the scene of the hero. However, Wonder Woman did this like no other superhero movie I've seen before, in that it barely tells you anything about Wonder Woman. Sure it tells you a bit about Greek mythology and the whole Aries vs. Zeus thing and how the Amazonian's came to exist, but it barely scratches the surface of Wonder Woman herself.
Wonder Woman discovered she had these powers during her training, but never questioned why she had them. Nearly every superhero movie you see, the hero goes through a difficult time understanding their origins and why they have these powers. Wonder Woman just sort of shrugs her shoulders as if it's totally normal to have no father and have these powers. There was zero character development, which led me not to care about Wonder Woman at all.
Also, she seems to flip and flop about her beliefs. She preaches pacifism and love yet goes killing "bad guys". How does she even know these people are bad? Why are the Germans bad but the British aren't? She just naively believes what she is told about the war without ever questioning anything.
The main issue I had with the movie though, was the merging of fantasy and ACTUAL historical events. I know superheros and real world merge all the time, but it's the first I've seen an historical event get taken over by some superhero. Throughout the movie I couldn't help but question all of the events going on with what actually happened in WWI. The whole no man's land scene was absolutely ridiculous in this regard. She just wanders across this land whilst soaking up bullets to allow the entire British army to advance? Please!
Another problem is a lack of a protagonist in the movie. We're told how Aries is a terrible person from the get go, but we never see Aries. WW simply believes Aries is the leader of the Germans because anybody who leads an army to war HAS to be Aries, duh! The problem is, who we think is Aries never actually does anything that bad. Okay he develops a gas that can kill people and uses it during the war. So? No different than any other killing going on throughout the movie. I never felt like the bad guy was all that bad, which made me feel like WW's personal crusade was largely pointless. I couldn't care less if she killed him or not.
Finally, once WW kills who she thinks is Aries, she discovers nothing changes and the war continues. This is when the REAL Aries suddenly shows up, some guy you've barely seen the entire movie. I wouldn't even give it the respect of calling it a twist as it was just stupid. A twist you can understand in hindsight, this guy just shows up from nowhere and is apparently Aries. Some huge battle takes place, at which point you've probably stopped caring, and WW kills him too. Magically, the armistice is then signed and the war is over. WW claims love is the answer to everything and the movie ends.