Comic book adaptation plus so much more.

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2018)

I'm curious as to why so many negative reviews appear here. Then again, everyone is entitled to an opinion, so here's mine.
This film seems to me to run a bit long; however, it's action-packed and keeps your attention. It's not the typical thing that most movie-makers trot out when adapting a comic book or graphic novel; instead, it takes a fresh look at a superhero that we're ostensibly familiar with.
Some of the details have been changed with this incarnation of Wonder Woman - a World War I backstory with Steve Trevor rather than the World War II origin story that comic book readers might be familiar with - however; the "bones" of the story are fully intact.
Highbrow entertainment? It's not exactly something you would expect to see on Masterpiece Theater Classic on a Sunday night in winter. But then again, it isn't meant to be that. It's fast paced, entertaining, lots of things that go boom; yet it's also a story that keeps you engaged and makes you care about what happens to the characters in the end.
Put succinctly: it's an action movie that has a lot of really good moments. In my humble opinion, it's probably the best (as of March 2018) DC Extended Universe movie of the bunch.
(I'll admit, I wasn't a fan of "Batman vs. Superman", and "Man of Steel" just moved a little too slowly for my taste.)