Amazingly well done - Gal Gadot is a star!

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2017)

Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish this is the most well made of the recent superhero movies.
Gal Gadot is perfect for the role, so beautiful she makes every scene she is in watchable, yet sweet enough to be endearing and statuesque enough to be convincing as an Amazon goddess. She really has the chance to shine here that she didn't have in the Furious movies. Thank goodness they cast her instead of some other less convincing actress. Chris Pine as the spy who brings her to War. They look fine together even if they could have cast a slightly younger actor.
The story is clever, blending her origins with World War I. Liked the humor interspersed which felt quite spontaneous and not corny at all. Managed to incorporate enough things from the original series like the wrist bands and lasso. but not the plane and spinning around.
Beautiful production from the stunning Mediterranean isle to London. I read that the look of the movie was inspired by the painter John Singer Sargent and there is a painterly quality in the color palate and art direction that makes the historic setting very attractive - look online for his paintings of WWI soldiers and the painting "Gassed".
The battle in the Western Front is the most exciting WWI trench warfare battle sequence I have seen. It doesn't matter that it's fantasy - it was thrilling.
Villains here are pre Nazi era Germans - they just can't get a break on screen. The ending is grand - maybe a few explosions could have been cut.
For sure the blockbuster movie of 2017.