I wonder, woman, I do wonder

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2017)

Hype-tastic! For months my desire to watch Wonder Woman was so bad it was practically at fever pitch, the trailers looked stunning, all the hype I was reading into got me buzzing.
Then I watched it!
Meh..., now I'm not well educated on the wonderful tales of Wonder Woman, or any other comic book superheros for that matter, so I write this review rather ignorantly.
I didn't get it, the very start of the film looked promising, as young Diane Prince gets trained up by the amazons and becomes a proud, highly talented amazon herself, this part of the film was fine, clearly inserted to give some semblance of a backstory for casual viewers like myself.
But then it all got messy, very quickly, and at this stage I became lost..., an old war plane crashes into the ocean and Diana swims out to rescue the pilot, where did this plane come from, well through a void in time and space of course, or that's the way it seemed.
The pilot becomes the co-pilot of the film alongside Diane, and both sail out to sea, and suddenly ends up in what appears to be New York (is that right?)
Before long Diane is drawn into the first world war in Europe, believing the mastermind behind the war is a God called Aries, who must be stopped and destroyed.
I could go on, but yes I know it's a superhero film and it doesn't have to make sense, but Wonder Woman was really far-fetched and I struggled to accept it.
Firstly, why would Diane (Wonder Woman) get drawn into the first world war? She lives in a beautiful paradise with her own kind, wouldn't she stay to protect her own kind rather than, yeah, you get it..., maybe I'm just not clever enough to understand the nonsensical weirdness of superhero worlds.
Alas there is some positives to take from Wonder Woman, the whole presentation and cinematography was phenomenal, lush, vivid colours in Diana's home land, gritty, worn torn and overtones of dull and dreary darkness in war torn Europe. The action scenes were mildly enjoyable, and Gal Gadot does her utmost best to portray a convincing Wonder Woman, she's no Lynda Carter I'll give her that, but she was a good fit nevertheless.
One more thing that bugged me, Diana's accent, I know Gal Gadot is of Israeli origin, but she doesn't even try to do a convincing American accent, yes I know Diana isn't American, but when in "disguise" during the film, trying to portray an American while teaming up with Chris Pine's spy character, wouldn't people notice her accent and realise she wasn't actually American?
Indeed all the hype fell well flat and left me a tad disappointed shall we say, like a kid at Christmas expecting a new bike, but what he actually get's is a new jumper, boohoo! DC just can't keep up with Marvel can they? Alas they will keep trying well into the future.