Join Diane as She Discovers the Wonder of Who She Is

Rating: 8/10 (12 November 2017)

Diane is Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), who comes from the Amazonian ruled island of Paradise which is ruled by the women warriors. She grows up and one day she rescues Steve (Chris Pine) who is a War War 1 spy escaping the Germans. He has important knowledge of something the Germans are doing, and must get it to London. After a battle between the Amazons and Germans, Diane goes with him and eventually he wants to battle the Germans, while Wonder Woman goes with him but sets out to find Ares, the god of war.
She is motivated by wanting to stop war, due to all the death and destruction in it.
Aside from the music, which is beyond super powerful, the main positive for this movie is the reveal of who Wonder Woman really is. Her true identity comes out gradually throughout the movie, until the climactic scene which causes us and her, to discover who she really is.
The movie has some hard to spot negatives, that I as a man am aware of, but have become insensitive to over the years. The movie is "reverse sexist", which is also true of thousands of B movies I watched during the 80s and 90s. Those B Movies were similar in the reverse sexism concept to "Charlies Angels". Those movies with stars like, Julie Strain and Sybil Danning, usually had men fighting and killing each other, and Women like Sybil and Julie fighting and killing men, and usually not much happening to the female characters who are treated as sacred compared to the men. This movie is along that line.
Getting past that, the movie central story conflict is related to the poem "The Wasteland" by TS Elliot. This poem is connected to a lot of 20th century literature (works of Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Hemingway), and similarly it is connected to this movie.
Spoilers
The real title of what I am writing should be: "Is The Human Race Worth Saving" because that is a Central Theme around the conflict, that makes this story.
However that would be major spoiler, so I saved it for here.
Not surprisingly a major character in the movie, Ares the god of war says "no". Ares sees the death and destruction caused by the selfishness, lustfulness and greed of the human race. (As did TS Eliott and so many 20th century writers who put Wasteland imagery into their stories.) We see throughout this story, the Wasteland that is being caused by the war. But unlike those writers, Ares decides he wants to destroy mankind. At one point in the story Wonder Woman realizes how terrible mankind is, and also feels the human race is not worth saving.
At that point, Ares reveals himself to her, and tries to enlist her help in destroying mankind and Ares at this point, Ares lets Diane know her true identity. He literally shows her the current status of earth is a Wasteland, her how ridding the world of humans can change this Wasteland to a beautiful place.
But at this point (not surprisingly) Diane changes her thinking and wants the human race to survive.
This is the biggest spoiler so don't read it if you want to enjoy the movie: When she decides she wants the human race to survive, it puts her toe to toe in a battle for the survival of mankind with Ares.
Of course you can guess who and what Wonder Woman really is, if she is able to battle with Ares, the god of war.
Aside from the powerful music, and the great reveal of who Wonder Woman really is, there is also Gal Gadot who is Wonder Woman. Gal looks like a Miss Universe from every angle, and bears a resemblance to the woman who in the 90s was the most beautiful woman ever on the screen, Jennifer Connelly.
The music the reveal of who and what Wonder Woman is and Gal Gadot made the movie quite a good viewing experience.