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

Only love can truly save the world.

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…

► 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…

We oppose imperialism. As the most destructive action in the world, as the source of more war, death, and exploitation than anything this world has known since chattel slavery was born, imperialism is the highest, most vile, most horrifying aspect of capitalism, and we oppose it. We oppose the countries that engage in it. We oppose the armies that effect it. We oppose the racism that enables it. We oppose the economic outlook that devised it. And we oppose the lies that support it.

And we oppose those who spread those lies.

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…

Movies are alchemy. I’ve said this before, and I’m sure I’ll say it many more times before I’m gone, but it’s the truth of the cinema: a magical, hard to harness process can turn a strip of film into something far more precious and meaningful.

Watch WONDER WOMAN with distant, unengaged eyes and you might see the seams, the places where reshoots came in or where the story is papered over in order to keep moving along to the next scene, where actors are standing in front of green screen or their faces have been plastered on a stunt double. But that’s the lead, and in the hands of Patty Jenkins it’s all turned into gold. What’s her secret? I…

I first saw this movie when I was in Spain, and I am now wondering if I watched a bad print of the movie. It original looked kind of dull, dim, and the final battle looked almost atrocious with way too much CGI. I wanted to see the movie again because everyone loves it and I did not on my first watch, so I saw it again and took my mother with me.
I still think that the opening on Themyscira is rough in terms of the accents, dialogue, and mythology. It is not bad (just rough), but it is the opening and it is easily my least favorite part of the movie. I complained about the overall dialogue previously,…