Wonder Woman: Woman Power

After all the disappointment churned out by DC, finally there is a movie by the comic power house that garnered general positive review. However, being a more Marvel fan rather than DC, I had my doubts. Still, scoring over 90% in Rotten Tomatoes is not an easy feat.






To be fair, lots of things was done right with Wonder Woman. The casting was perfect with Gal Gadot playing the title character. She has an elegant aura around her, at the same time emit a powerful feeling of independence. Chris Pine is fine, just that with Gal Gadot playing a perfect Wonder Woman, she overshadowed the rest of the character.

Action is awesome with smart use of slow motion, and the action sequence was framed artistically well. At some point, I really thought that Zack Synder was the director instead of producer. Having Wonder Woman as the title character, she can really pack a punch. All her action sequences are believable.


Comes the story. Diana is the princess on an all female Amazon island. A allied spy stranded on the island after a mission under the German, pursued by them. Obviously Steve Trevor was rescued by Diana, who later followed him back to the real world in the context of finding and destroying Ares, The God of War. She got involved in World War 2, rescue a village, became a hero. In the finale, she realize the war may be more than what she bargain for, and of course Ares made his appearance.


The war story was good. In fact, the whole thing work, mainly because of Gal Gadot. But  I had a problem with the mesh up of war and the God vs Amazon battle. It felt bit funny having to follow the war mission to destroy a plane filled with poison gas, while having another God level battle on another end. Both battle is nice on its own, but having them together just felt unnatural. Without revealing too much on the villain, the casting was fine before revealing his true identity, but after that, he just lack the menace. Nothing like Loki at all.


Finally, while it will remain one of DC better works, I still feel Wonder Woman is over rated. However, it did do justice to woman super hero, and just get to prove that woman also can fight well and emerge a hero.


ratings: 3 half poink~!
comments; I cant help but to compare to Captain America First Avengers. Both are origin movie. Both happens in WW2. Both hero basically has super strength, fights well, jump far. Both also ended up with someone sacrificing themselves. However, I ended rooting for Captain, as the story, villain (Red Skull at least is still a human) harmonize well with the whole flow.