The first triumph for DC in years, but it still has flaws.

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2017)

DC have not been doing well at all in recent years. Sure, in 2017 we got The Lego Batman Movie and this. But DC still finds a way to screw everything up (if Justice League wasn't enough to prove that for you then I don't know what will). Wonder Woman is certainly good, but it is no where near close to a cinematic masterpiece like all critics are saying (92% on Rotten Tomatoes is absolute tripe). The story as far as I'm aware is the same as in the comics so there's nothing to really say other than: Diana lives in sealed off Greek land, WW1 American spy crashes there and Diana saves him, the man and Diana go to try and stop WW1 and kill ''Ares'' the God of war (according to Diana). Now, I've seen some badass slow motion shiz from Zack Snyder, but this movie kicks the badassery up to whole new level. The action scenes aren't really the main focus until the middle of the movie and whilst that's a little disappointing when it's considered an action movie, at least we have time for the movie to give us Diana's backstory as well as some exposition. This surprised me at first because I never would've expected a modern DC film to do this after having many previous movies suck hard due to too much action and not enough time to establish a cohesive story with no plot holes (Suicide Squad). With the action not being the main focus until later on in the movie we get a decent story for once and that is such a breath of fresh air for modern DC movies. And when the action kicks in, it kicks IN. The action scenes are great and make me want to go to Zack Snyder's School of Badassery because god damn are these fight scenes good. The movie does have a habit of touching on a few things that would make OK side plots, but they just either forget about them or don't use them to their full extent. The TotallyNotSteveRogers guy who acts as the second main character assembles a team to help infiltrate a German base. These members are all interesting with Charlie being my favourite, but there are a lot of things about them that weren't touched on later in the film like Charlie seeing ghosts and is haunted by them in his sleep so he can't shoot his gun anymore. This would've made an EXCELLENT side plot if they actually gave a shite about it. As soon as it's talked about it's only referenced one more time and that's like nearly ten minutes later, then it's completely forgotten about. Then there are also a few things that made me go ''WTF'' like later on in the movie where Diana puts on a blue dress to disguise herself and it looks like she's wearing nothing underneath it, but then 5 minutes later she's on a horse and takes it off while riding it (SOMEHOW) and reveals that she's been wearing her heavy ass armour the entire time underneath it. Things like that don't really affect my overall enjoyment of the movie, but just tick me off when rewatching it. The acting is good (Gal Gadot was just born for being the actor of Wonder Woman/Diana) and the special effects, for as little as they are used, are OK and the plot is decent. All of these features give the movie a 7/10 which is not a bad score, I just wish the movie was better. The amount of critical praise it's getting is just as baffling as the new IT remakes praise, because neither are perfect. Far from, actually. This isn't the movie of the century and it isn't perfect, but it's a good movie that you can just enjoy without reading to much into it. It's just entertainment, that's all a movie should be. Not saying movies with deeper meanings and complex plots aren't good, hell they rank as some of my favourite movies of all time, but if a movie is simple like Wonder Woman, then I'm fine with it. Especially if it tells me that DC released two good movies in a row in one year. I would recommend Wonder Woman if you're willing to give DC another chance.