Highly Entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2017)

Gal Gadot plays the title role in this retelling of the super hero's origins and first encounters with humans. Raised to be a super warrior on an island of Amazons, fearless Gadot trains with the expectation of one day fighting the god Ares, who is thought by the Amazons to come back one day and kill all the humans and Amazons on the planet. When a soldier (played by Chris Pine) crashes his plane near the Amazons' island, his story of a great and terrible war happening all over Earth is interpreted by Gadot that this is the doing of Ares. Gadot follows Pine into the world of humans where her kind heart will be overwhelmed with the duality of humans (their savage and loving nature).
At first, Pine helps Gadot blend in with the crowd, trying to ease her away from what he considers her insane mission of going to the front line to seek Ares and kill the god of war. But no one can tame her spirit; and when the innocent are suffering, Gadot's disguise comes off and Wonder Woman comes out in all her glory.
My most memorable, movie moment of "Wonder Woman" is the scene when Gadot is in the trenches with the soldiers. Upon hearing of civilians trapped behind enemy lines, she shrugs off her coat and goes into No Man's Land alone, fully dressed in her Wonder Woman armor. Beautiful, exciting, and dramatic, she charges forward ready to kick some serious enemy ass.
Stripped down to its basic essence, this is a love story between two very likeable characters. The awesome special effects and thrilling, action set pieces are just icing to a substantial cake.
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