Not a Savior for the DCEU, but a good start

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2017)

I didn't know what I wanted to expect from a Wonder Woman movie. I wasn't impressed by Gal Gadot in Batman v Superman, and the WWI setting put me off. But the more I thought of it, it was a perfect setting. The only Wonder Woman movie I'd seen up to that point was the 2009 animated film, and all it felt like was anti-male propaganda, so waiting for a live-action movie about the character, especially in a WWII setting, I was cringing at how much it would jump on the man- hating band wagon. But to my surprise, the DCEU decided to have a more mature approach, it's not about men-kind, it's about mankind, and explores one of the world's chosen saviors, an Amazon, exploring man's world and discovering there's more to it than simply bad and good; that everyone can have shades of gray to them. I like the cast, some more than others, with Gadot making a decent portrayal as Diana, and Chris Pine doing a good job as Trevor.
So Diana, princess of the Amazons, leaves with Steve Trevor in order to end the war before the villains, general Ludendorff and Doctor Poison, can release a deadly toxin that will kill millions of others, creating a war that never ends. Diana is set on defeating Ludendorff, whom she believes to be the god of war himself, Ares. Along the way, Diana and Steve put together a group of soldiers to help them fight. I really like the action in this movie, and my favorite segment has to be when Diana steps over the trenches, choosing to do something instead of allowing the fight to continue.
As for negatives, I do have one thing; the portrayal of the villains. I have no problem with with Ludendorff and Maru, AKA Doctor Poison. My problem lies in the fact that, the German army are portrayed as the deadly villains. Watching the movie again, it occurred to me that the people of Germany, and the country itself, was forced into the war. It was different in WWII as they WERE the bad guys; the SS, the Nazi's, of course they were the bad guys. I just wish the would have portrayed how the people of Germany we're in those days; just like the British and the French, the Germans were just as much people who we're forced to fight, and without the obvious bad guy and their destructive plan, I feel like had a German crash landed on Themyscira instead at the beginning, Diana would have been fighting with the Germans instead. Looking through the group Diana and Steve put together, I just wished there could have been a German guy in there as well, to show that gray area that they had to fight. It's a good mix of characters too, and shows how things were in those days.
All in all, I enjoyed this movie, and I think the director Patty Jenkins handled the story and setting well, I just wish it handled portraying the gray area there was in that war. I also wished they had left the Ares fight at the end to another movie instead using it for the cliché end fight between the hero and villain.