Oh, hi Mark!

Rating: 1/10 (9 September 2017)

Gal Gadot might have a pretty face, but she couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Her acting and accent kept reminding me of Tommy Wiseau in The Room. And since she can't speak in anything but an Israeli accent (she's the new Schwarzenegger) the rest of the Amazon actors have to adopt fake accents. I say "accents" - plural - because they all speak with different imaginary accents, even those supposedly related to each other, which is just one indicator of how lazy this film is.
And I can't look past the fact that Gadot is a Zionist who has served in the Israeli Occupation Forces, which has oppressed the Palestinian population for decades. So when her character speaks about the plight of civilians and how she's dying to help them, it all rings false in my ears considering her background.
The movie's villain is a twist, which should come as a surprise to absolutely no one. The movie is hailed as a progressive one because it stars a female character and is directed by a woman, but no one seems to notice that the major bad guy in this movie is the only one who keeps talking about the importance of peace. How progressive that those seeking peace really are untrustworthy and/or evil on the inside. That's taken straight out of the right wing playbook and fitting for a fascist propaganda show like 24.
The final battle in Wonder Woman looks exactly like the final battle in Batman vs Superman. Seriously, you could lift clips from either movie and insert it into the other with no trouble at all.
And was any exterior shot in this movie actually shot on location? It felt like a Hitchcock movie. A lot of the green screen work and compositing in this movie looked even worse than the end fight in The Avengers (Loki on a space scooter anyone?) and that was made 5 years ago.
Finally, the slow motion. I feel like Zack Snyder strapped Patty Jenkins into a chair and forced her eyes open with clamps like in A Clockwork Orange and made her watch 300 on repeat. If you accentuate every single shot in a sequence with slow motion, in the end you accentuate nothing at all.
This movie was absolutely dreadful.