I actually saw this one. It drew me to it in spite of the previous DC films because the trailers were pretty strong and did seem to give an impression that it was moving away from what I didn't like about Man of Steel. So I was hoping for good but slightly prepared for it to be a stinker. I liked it. It was a strong superhero movie that worked in quite a few ways. Chris Pine brought a lot to it, I felt, and he grounded the movie (although he looked haggard, like he wasn't well when they shot it) and the setting was interesting. The world of the Amazons was also portrayed really well and the character herself worked really well.
Where the film hugely fell down for me was in the last section and the villain. All the drama and human stuff was left behind in favour of a big fight (I can't blame Wonder Woman or DC for that - most superhero films are guilty of this) but, to make it worse, the fight turned into a vague abstract CG thing and the big enemy, the mighty Ares, just didn't bring the presence the fight needed. The actor is great, by the way, and I've seen him do wonderful and creepy work in other things but he doesn't have a big supervillain thing going on at all. It's like they needed to give him some other form at the end and they didn't. So the end left me disappointed but, overall, I felt it was a good film.
And yet I haven't ever had the urge to revisit it.
Where the film hugely fell down for me was in the last section and the villain. All the drama and human stuff was left behind in favour of a big fight (I can't blame Wonder Woman or DC for that - most superhero films are guilty of this) but, to make it worse, the fight turned into a vague abstract CG thing and the big enemy, the mighty Ares, just didn't bring the presence the fight needed. The actor is great, by the way, and I've seen him do wonderful and creepy work in other things but he doesn't have a big supervillain thing going on at all. It's like they needed to give him some other form at the end and they didn't. So the end left me disappointed but, overall, I felt it was a good film.
And yet I haven't ever had the urge to revisit it.
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