Wonder Woman 2017 review

Finally one of the trinity in the DC universe has her own movie and it was worth the wait. Wonder Woman has only got her share of screen time in animations and the 1970s' TV series starring Linda Carter. Fans still say that Linda is the perfect cast for Wonder Woman, so it's a huge role for any new actress to play. 

DC found their Wonder Woman in Gal Gadot. She played the titular character in 2016's Batman v Superman. Although the movie split fans to either love or hate it, but the breathe of fresh air was the introduction of WW, combined with her own electrifying theme music, it was the best part of the movie.

DC made this movie an origins story of WW and also cleverly ties into the BvS. They start of by showing Diana Prince receiving an old photograph from Bruce Wayne, and she starts to reminiscence about her time as a child on the island of Themyscira. Diana is the princess of Themyscira and daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. The Queen's sister, General Antiope was a great warrior and is the one responsible to train the young Diana. The story starts in the land of only women when a British spy, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crash lands on the island. Diana soon finds out that there is war in the outside worlds and wants to leave to help mankind to live in peace.

Once they leave the island, the movie goes a bit slow but don't get me wrong, there is no dull moment, just no fight or action scenes. There is great chemistry between the innocent Diana and Chris Pine's character where she still tried to learn about the outside world. Without giving away any spoilers or plot points which were not included in the trailer, the movie picks up in the third act. The action scenes are really well taken and has the Man of Steel feel to it, with fast moving CGI characters and explosion. It does bug me a bit when movies tend create the characters in CG for action scenes, cause somehow the movement is not so natural, but its forgiven cause the end results looks and feels fantastic. 

DC did get it right this time mainly cause there was no unnecessary complicated plots, kept some plots points away from the trailer and basically dint take itself too seriously. Since this story takes place during World War 1, it does have a bit of Captain America feel to it, and I did get a feeling that DC is slowly trying to emulate Marvel in their story telling cause this movie is way different from Man of Steel and BvS in terms of the look and feel to the movie. Full credits to the director, Patty Jenkins, the first female director of a superhero film in bringing Wonder Woman to the big screen. Its the movie all Wonder Woman fans been waiting for and I'm sure they will have some epic tears in the eyes moments. I sure did 

Ratings: 8/10