A Good Watch, But No For the Gender Rep

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2017)

I managed to go and check out Wonder Woman soon after it came out and I'm having mixed feelings about it. Part of me likes it, part of me isn't too convinced about the ending and the ending is really important in helping me figure out if I like a movie, and another part is saying, "well what did you expect from a superhero movie?"
If the scene had action in it, I really liked it. I think my favorite parts so far were at the beginning where the Amazons fought the Germans, and when Diana is at No Man's Land (the part we see in the previews). I really liked how Chris Pine portrayed Steve Trevor. It was really simple but there was something really charismatic about him. It was enough for you to notice that he was one of the main characters but not enough that Diana was pushed to the back. As for Gal Gadot's acting, I liked it. I'm a fan of hers and she didn't disappoint this time either.
Aside from action packed scenes, the movie also had some funny moments during the down times. So why wasn't I feeling this movie?
Spoilers start here!
At the end of the movie Diana ends up killing Ludendorff because she thinks he's Ares. Throughout the movie she'd been going on and on about her duty to stop him but when she does kill him nothing happens. The war continues and she's left confused. We later learn that Ludendorff wasn't actually Ares but the part that bugs me is that it takes Steve Trevor for her to understand and to take certain action. Not to mention the mini-tantrum she had because she was wrong. "What there's a bunch of dangerous gas out there that can wipe out millions and you need my help? Uhm no thanks, let me sulk here because I was wrong"
It's only after Steve talks to her and (basically) tells her that humans have an inner evil that she starts to understand. It's only after Steve blows himself up that she finally loses control and it's only after she remembers what he tells her (that he loves her) that she finally understands that humans are evil but that they are also capable of love. That love is the answer. It almost makes it seem like she didn't know what love was until Steve Trevor came into her life...
This might not seem like much but considering this movie is supposed to be about Wonder Woman, one of the few female superheroes, I was expecting something more. Something better. But Diana starts off as a naive girl, ignorant about the world and then she meets a man, can finally see the world because this man gave her the excuse to leave, and finally understands human nature thanks to said man
I usually don't care about representation but that's one of the reasons this movie was supposed to be such a good watch and it wasn't for me on that end.
It was a good watch because it had good action, but other than that, it's your typical PG-13 superhero movie. I gave it a 7/10 because I liked the action and because Gal Gadot was pretty cool