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Wonder Woman is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, produced by DC Entertainment in association with RatPac Entertainment and Chinese company Tencent Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
It is the fourth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
Directed by Patty Jenkins from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg and a story by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs, Wonder Woman stars Gal Gadot in the title role, alongside Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, and Elena Anaya.
It is the second live action theatrical film featuring Wonder Woman following her debut in 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
In Wonder Woman, the Amazon princess Diana sets out to stop World War I, believing the conflict was started by the longtime enemy of the Amazons, Ares, after American pilot and spy Steve Trevor crash-lands on their island Themyscira and informs her about it.
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A voluble mix of the hoariest cliched scenes and dialogue I have seen in a movie for decades and some reasonably good action and fight scenes. The slo-mo action is kinda reminiscent of a old style martial arts movie but it's too 'violence porn' for my tastes. The movie trivialises the horror and the seriousness of modern war but I don't want to comment about that. (Lots of movies do this. So what?)
ReplyDeleteThis movie makes remarkable structural mistakes from it's opening scenes. The first few minutes are wasted on the backstory of little girl Wonder Woman complete with dodgy child acting and expositional dialogue explaining the characters. (In modern film we **show** don't tell. Ugh, amateurs!)
If the movie had opened with the battle on the beach it would have been awesome. How do professional movie-makers make an error like this?
The dialogue is execrable. Apart from continuously making the expositional mistake, it seems awkward and underdeveloped at every turn.
The scenes set in WWI London are poorly realsed. Lots of anachronisms and poor elements undermine the movie.
Character development is pretty thin but just what you'd expect from a comic book based movie. The plot is just ludicrous, lacking credibility and completely unrealistic. Sure it's a comic book but the missing elements are humour and charm. The story comes across as boring rubbish mired in boring cliche. If it's jokey and cool (like Iron Man) it works no matter how silly it gets. This just keeps falling flat on its face.
The acting is ok. Chris Pine is hammy. Gal Gadot is good to watch but hard to believe. Lucy Davies (from the UK Office!!) steals scenes. Professor Lupin is hard to take seriously. Princess Daisy is remarkable for her age. Spud out of Trainspotting as the funny soldier is miscast. The Turkish guy and the Indian brave guy are neither iverused or over funny. They seem superfluous.
You know what the most disappointing thing about this is? Despite claims to the contrary the feminist credentials are not even slightly obvious. The woman might be the hero and even win the day but she fights the man's war in the man's way to liberate the (male) state. Does she stop the suffering of the women of Belgium? Does the movie interpret World War/modern war from a feminist perspective? No clues in this movie! This movie does almost nothing to fuel the liberation of the female state. It's b-movie fantasy and too unsophisticated to be any thing but a waste of time.
ABM Rating 0.5/3
Credits note Steve Mnuchin (current US Secretary of the Treasury) as EP. This casts an ugly alt-right political stain on the production.