THE GOOD:

- Gal Gadot

- the purity and dedication of the gender role reversals (and everything that goes along with that). this, needless to say, is the most thrilling and important factor here.

- Gal Gadot

- the lasso

- Gal Gadot

- WWI setting, which excuses a lot of the inexplicably appalling special effects, in its own saturday morning serial kinda way

- Gal Gadot

- Lucy Davis

- Gal Gadot

- all the bits in London

- Gal Gadot

- the actors who play the villains

- Gal Gadot

- this bullet-point format that allows me to get this over and done with while re-watching FUNNY PEOPLE for work.

THE BAD:

- the cringe-worthy framing device

-…

96/100

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Remember when some trickster claiming to be a former worker from Warner Bros. wrote an open letter saying that Wonder Woman was just another mess of a DC movie, et cetera? I remember how Patty Jenkins responded to that. She tweeted: "Just wait and you'll see".

Honestly, I don't know how anyone could even consider that there was the slightest chance of this movie not being good, and I'm gonna tell you why: this is the very first big female-led superhero movie, in which the title character also happens to be the greatest female superhero in history. If you really think that Patty Jenkins, also the first woman to ever direct a…

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It's hard to watch this movie, as it is hard to watch a film about abuse where the lead actor is a known abuser, as it is hard…

► Gonzo's 2017 Movie Rankings

Is it good?
Mmm... It's a tale of two halves, really. The first half is pretty good (and pretty MCU-ish), but the second half is pretty bad (and—and I know this is gonna sound like I'm a hater—pretty DCEU).

Okay... But is it good?
Promising?... But overall, unfortunately, no. It's almost there. They almost nailed it, but not quite.

But... but everybody who has seen it so far has said it's good?
I could see why people would like it. On the surface, it's mostly diverting and generally badass. I mean, how cool is it to finally see Wonder Woman star in her very own film? It's really cool (there's no denying that), and Wonder…

Wonder Woman has been called the best DCEU movie yet... but that sounds like a back handed compliment. It is genuinely a great movie without any qualifiers.

The story and setting is very reminiscent of Captain America: The First Avenger but it felt less a derivative copy and more of a coincidence or a different take on a premise. Since we are comparing it to marvel movies, WW does suffer the problem of a weak villain. You'll get more enjoyment if a strong hero/villain dynamic isn't a requirement for every super hero film.

The World War I setting was (shockingly) one of the strongest elements of the film. This time period allowed enough technology to surprise the Amazons but not…