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Wonder Woman (2015)

8.1/10 on IMDb
92% on Rotten Tomatoes

Chloe's thoughts: It's alright;
Watch it in cinemas;
Low-energy entertainment

Watch it if you: Are a fan of Gal Gadot (and who isn't);
Want to see the DCEU finally have a decent movie;
Want to see a cool and entertaining movie with a strong female lead;
Want to see some pretty cool action sequences

After learning about the atrocities of World War I, Diana leaves her female-populated Amazonian land to follow an American pilot into the heart of the war, in an effort to save mankind.

I watched this quite late so there had already been quite a bit of hype about the film's strong female presence. All in all, I did enjoy the portrayal of a strong Wonder Woman, but the last act could have been a lot better.

The first two thirds of the movie was actually quite enjoyable and I thought it was going pretty darn well!

It was funny and entertaining, with Gal Gadot and Chris Pine both having great comedic timing.

They are also both super dreamy, and I, like the other 7 billion people on this planet, am completely in love with her now. She is beautiful, cute, sexy, and strong in this film and a fantastic role model for young children.

On top of that, the actual character of Wonder Woman here is compassionate, smart, and kind, but she's not without her faults. She's stubborn, naive, and assuming, but she learns to overcome this the more she is exposed to the human world.

There was a lot of buzz about the fight scenes in this film. Wonder Woman is part of the Amazonians, who in Greek mythology were all amazing female warriors, so their fight scenes should be pretty amazing. And while they were pretty cool to look at, I was not a big fan of the constant slow motion that kept happening over and over again throughout the movie. It felt very Zack Snyder-y, like in how 300 there was just constant slow-motion moments interspersed. Sometimes it looked cool, but at other times they were just slow-mo-ing the most random and uncool parts, so I don't even know what the point of it was.

But you know what felt REALLY Zack Snyder-y? The entire third act.

There is one very crucial stage in the movie where everything just goes completely downhill. From then on, the movie is just too insane, too crazy, too cheesy, and just too bizarre for me. The fact that they could have gone a better, more wholesome route, but ended up going with this cheesy ending, was quite disappointing.

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If you have seen the movie, which you probably have since you're reading these spoilers, then you probably know which section I'm talking about. The moment that Professor Lupin appears as Ares.

There was an audible groan in the cinema, and even a few laughs, when this happened, because the idea of it is just SO ridiculous.

I thought they would go into the territory of, "No one is Ares because actually everyone is Ares! Humans are shitty creatues and we are inherently bad, but we do have some good in us, and even that small speck of light, even if it's consumer by all this darkness, is still worth fighting for."

NOPE.

They just went with, "Oh yeah, there actually is one man who is Ares, and once we kill him, the war will end. Even though it was actually like a team effort and we needed one guy to blow himself up together with the plane full of weaponry, and we also needed another couple guys to take out the factory."

Of course, I was wondering why Professor Lupin (okay I feel sorry for David Thewlis because nobody knows that's his real name) would agree to such a minor role, but I just assumed he wanted a cameo for his kids or something.

Anyway, it was just weird to have Ares, the god of war, one of the Twelve Olympians, son of Zeus, be portrayed by this out of shape middle-aged man who we all know is actually a werewolf. And don't even get me started on that brief scene where he's half naked in that cave.

It didn't look right at all and the casting distracted from the actual fight scenes so much.

And that is saying something since the fight scenes themselves were hard to be distracted from; they were INSANE and reminded me of the craziness of Man of Steel.

Also the fact that Wonder Woman pulled out that "love is powerful" speech and that was also like an ode to Harry Potter was also distracting (and cheesy).

But overall it was an enjoyable movie. The writing can get a bit cheesy, especially in the last act, but it was still funny and entertaining. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine have amazing chemistry together and are both very easy on the eyes. If DC continues with this quality of movies then I will finally start believing in them again.