Wonder Woman - Not a Great Film, but not a Bad Film Either!
There are 2 aspects that drew me to this DC origin action film.
> The Rotten Tomatoes 93% rating.
> Very hot Gal Gadot as Princess Diana, cast from clay and brought to life by Zeus.
As this is an origin film we see Princess Diana grow from childhood to the superhero adult (a bit like Superman). She belongs to a society run by women in a paradise island where the weather is summer all year round and the landscape is perfect. It looks like a Greek island, probably Lezbos judging by the large number of 'hard looking' girls on screen. They are all young, attractive and they can fight. In contrast the world outside is miserable, grey, violent and at war. The women are great warriors, Diana undertakes many years of rigorous fight training and she possesses supernatural powers as well. Eventually Diana manages to displace her trainer and becomes the all-powerful and really hot (I mean really hot!) Wonder Woman.
So everything is wonderful until Chris Pine arrives with 'war in his blood' and his above average body parts! The plot is around the prevention of the use of a new deadly gas during World War 1.
The villain in the plot is Aries, the God of War. He is jealous of Zeus's humanity and has been provoking wars for thousands of years. Chris Pine is the normal female eye-candy, the audience becomes attached to this character although he ultimately dies in a most heroic manner. He pilots a plane full of poisoned gas cans and strangely decides to blow up the plane rather than land safely to deal with the dangerous cargo! This decision just spreads the gas for 100's of miles, causing millions of deaths, which preventing this was precisely the point of the plot! (ehhh? -I was confused)
Dr Poison is the female villain who creates the gas but her life is spared by Wonder Woman, while Chris Pine is the male hero but is killed off!. Therefore, all men are evil except for Pine who dies anyway. All women are good except for Dr Poison, who lives.
There's a major twist at the end, the identity of Aries is not who you expect it to be and not who Wonder Woman believed it to be. Dianna presumes the senior German officer is Aries and kills him but the war is not brought to an end. Aries turns out to be the head of the British government, Sir Patrick, who has been collaborating with the Germans.
Wonder Woman was created in 1942, she was the red, white 'n' blue American patriotic heroin although Diana Prince is definitely seen to be a global heroin.
Not a great film but not a bad film either.
Not a good example of a film to see in 3D.
6/10.
> The Rotten Tomatoes 93% rating.
> Very hot Gal Gadot as Princess Diana, cast from clay and brought to life by Zeus.
As this is an origin film we see Princess Diana grow from childhood to the superhero adult (a bit like Superman). She belongs to a society run by women in a paradise island where the weather is summer all year round and the landscape is perfect. It looks like a Greek island, probably Lezbos judging by the large number of 'hard looking' girls on screen. They are all young, attractive and they can fight. In contrast the world outside is miserable, grey, violent and at war. The women are great warriors, Diana undertakes many years of rigorous fight training and she possesses supernatural powers as well. Eventually Diana manages to displace her trainer and becomes the all-powerful and really hot (I mean really hot!) Wonder Woman.
So everything is wonderful until Chris Pine arrives with 'war in his blood' and his above average body parts! The plot is around the prevention of the use of a new deadly gas during World War 1.
The villain in the plot is Aries, the God of War. He is jealous of Zeus's humanity and has been provoking wars for thousands of years. Chris Pine is the normal female eye-candy, the audience becomes attached to this character although he ultimately dies in a most heroic manner. He pilots a plane full of poisoned gas cans and strangely decides to blow up the plane rather than land safely to deal with the dangerous cargo! This decision just spreads the gas for 100's of miles, causing millions of deaths, which preventing this was precisely the point of the plot! (ehhh? -I was confused)
Dr Poison is the female villain who creates the gas but her life is spared by Wonder Woman, while Chris Pine is the male hero but is killed off!. Therefore, all men are evil except for Pine who dies anyway. All women are good except for Dr Poison, who lives.
There's a major twist at the end, the identity of Aries is not who you expect it to be and not who Wonder Woman believed it to be. Dianna presumes the senior German officer is Aries and kills him but the war is not brought to an end. Aries turns out to be the head of the British government, Sir Patrick, who has been collaborating with the Germans.
Wonder Woman was created in 1942, she was the red, white 'n' blue American patriotic heroin although Diana Prince is definitely seen to be a global heroin.
Not a great film but not a bad film either.
Not a good example of a film to see in 3D.
6/10.
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