Great action movie from the DCEU

Rating: 8/10 (9 June 2017)

Watched this opening weekend and really enjoyed it. Just now getting to write this review so I'll Star it off with this: I'm so tired of the "Marvel vs DC" debate. I understand they're both comic book movies and should be compared, but at the same time they're different in tone, characters, and overall style. A good movie is a good movie whether it be a Marvel movie or a DC movie. That being said, this is a fantastic action flick. A couple spoilers below.
The slow-mo shots were a bit over the top. I enjoy tasteful slow motion and sometimes that means I don't even want to notice the slow motion. Slow motion started as a cinematic element to make the audience focus on something. When a woman is beating the crap out of a bunch of men, it's cool... in fact, it's really cool... but there's some parts where they slowed down every punch and kick (not actually but that's what it felt like). Not saying they should've taken all the slow motion out... some of the shots were sick. Others were redundant and just took me out of the mood to enjoy the sequence. I feel like the movie could've been almost 20 minutes shorter if the filmmakers used the slow-mo sparingly.
I loved the character development. For once the DCEU actually makes me feel like the characters aren't doing things for their own selfish desires. Everything felt genuine. From the part where little Diana is running away from school, to the beach battle, to the fight scenes. For every action there was a reaction, whether that be from another character or the scene around them. Everything is explained really well, and the humor was tasteful, ALTHOUGH, I thought the scene in the boat and dialogue about "pleasure" was a bit too far.
The final act (boss) felt like a video game cut scene to me. Didn't hate it though. I thought it was epic, but I felt it was missing something and I don't know what that was. Maybe it was the fact they were surrounded by fire and made it seem like the VFX editors got lazy. I understand that there were explosions and what not, but Diana was literally getting thrown hundreds of yards at some points, and yet, still surrounded by fire... yet she never landed in it? I also thought it was stupid of "Aries" to fight her with lightning... okay... the first time she absorbed it so try it again but twice as strong. Where's the logic in that? They literally reveal that she's the daughter of Zeus.... THE SKY GOD THAT CONTROLS LIGHTNING!!! That's like fighting a water type Pokémon with water. When your enemy literally absorbs your attack I think it's time to try something different. Especially from Aries being the God of War; you would think he'd have a better tactic. But like I said, it was a really cool battle scene those were just a couple things that bugged me.
One last thing. At the end when Steve (Chris Pine) hands her the watch and we can't hear anything he says because we're allegedly hearing through Diana's ears I thought that was neat. What I didn't think was neat was when 5 minutes later there's a flashback to that scene and we can now hear what he said... really? Why couldn't we save the time and just hear it the first time? It could've saved a couple minutes.
Overall, it was a really good action/comic movie from the DCEU. It had all the elements m, and even a surprise twist for those of us who didn't read the comics (if the twist even happened in the comics), which were well sculpted wonderfully by director Patty Jenkins. This is definitely one that I'll consider buying when it's out on Blu Ray.
8/10