When I say this is far better then anything else the DC Cinematic Universe did before, that is most certainly a loaded compliment.

It's still a compliment, but when you're only better than Man Of Steel, Batman V Superman, and especially Suicide Squad, it really doesn't take much to achieve that.

So to talk about the not much it did to achieve this, it has a narrative that makes sense, performances that are at least believable, and directing that feels as though it has some passion to it and was done with intelligence equal to that of an actual grown adult.

I told you.

Whether it does much more than that...well, for me, not really, but I didn't despise watching it, nor was I laughing at its incompetence, so I enjoyed it enough I suppose.

I'll happily admit that Gal Gadot does really own this role, although there are a few moments where I do wonder if that was really the best take they could have gotten from her, and she and Chris Pine bounce off each other really well. Patty Jenkins clearly is at her best when dealing with character interactions.

When directing action scenes, she's not bad, but she does have a bit of a tendency to overuse slow motion at points, and on that note, holy crap the effects in this film haven't improved at all from any of the others. In fact, they may have gotten even worse.

And like I said before, the narrative and characters are okay, even if I think they could have been good, were it not for one thing, the single biggest mistake this film makes: I absolutely d e s p i s e how it ended. I won't spoil it, but for a few minutes, it was going in a way that honestly had me thinking it would be a very mature and interesting ending to a film like this...and then big CGI nearly indestructable beings punch each other really hard for ten minutes, just like every other film like this, and it completely ruins what they were building up to for virtually the whole film. It's a clear cut case of a film trying to have its cake and eat it too.

But still...I'd watch this another ten times before ever sitting through Suicide Squad again.