Entertaining but clichÃ© and forgettable

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2017)

Like Star Wars The Force Awakens, and Rogue One, mediocre movies that star a "strong" female lead have overwhelmingly high scores on review sites, and seem to crush at the box office. Droves of women dying for a "You go girl" action movie drag their boyfriends to see a clichÃ©, plot hole ridden, mediocre action film and then claim it's the greatest performance....ever!
I didn't hate the movie. I thought it was a fun popcorn muncher. The opening scene of Diana's Amazonian roots and the weird battle with Germans who just happen to accidentally find their way through some sort of portal...is just not that compelling.
All these women who train all their lives to be these mystical warriors, doing flips and jumps...are no match for a bullet? I suppose they are supposed to be normal human women who can just leap 20 feet? It doesn't make much sense.
You have to wait almost an hour for the first good action scene, which is quite thrilling with Diana charging the world war 1 trenches. But it takes sooo long to get there.
The villain is forgettable and clichÃ©. The German bad guys are a clichÃ© of Nazis, and what's with all the weird identity politics, like the Native American guy "He took my land," who adds nothing to the plot, or the weird German sniper who does nothing?
Anyway, I didn't hate it, didn't love it. But it's no Guardians of the Galaxy or Thor!