Gadot Makes the Film

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2017)

Wonder Woman (2017)
*** (out of 4)
Amazonian warrior Diana (Gal Gadot) witnesses a plane crash into an ocean so she rushes to save the pilot (Chris Pine). Soon she realizes that there's some sort of war going on in the outside world and the two travel to London where Diana is going to get to reveal her full powers.
It seems that next to Donald Trump, WONDER WOMAN was the most political discussion held by people on social media in 2017. I must admit that I skipped the movie in theaters and waited for its Blu-ray release and as an outsider I was just shocked at the countless political rants that were going on with the film. I don't plan on getting political in this review but I should also point out that I've never read a comic book in my life. With that said, WONDER WOMAN was certainly a good movie but I'm going to stop well short before calling it great or anything special.
There were some wonderful things throughout the picture and we can start with Gadot. She was certainly the perfect choice for the role as she has the look down as well as the physical need for the role. I thought she perfectly owned every aspect of the role and she was certainly the best thing about the picture. I found Pine to be quite good as well and the two of them had a nice chemistry throughout. The Amazonian world was another good aspect as the look of it was wonderful and it really did come off as a fantasy world. The WWI setting was another plus.
With that said, there really wasn't anything overly original here except for the lead being a woman. In fact, some of the things here I found to be quite lame including the non-stop sexual innuendo that starts right from the start to the very end of the picture. For all the "she's a great role model for girls" we certainly got a lot of lame jokes. I'd also argue that the CGI was used way too much. I know CGI is the king of the world in movies but for me when it's used poorly or too much it just takes away from everything on the screen and I thought that happened here.
With that said, WONDER WOMAN is certainly a film that is worth watching but I'm just not going to celebrate it as some sort of great film.