Wonder Woman

Gal Godot returns from her cameo in BvS for the audience to witness Diana's origin story. It's a pretty entertaining summary of her childhood leading to her training to becoming a warrior. Robin Wright was the perfect actress to portray Antiope. However, her life on Themyscira, an isolated island from the outside world, is thrown into chaos when soldiers during the Great War suddenly appear. Both the Amazons and the Germans, plus one horribly miscast Chris Pine, are equally surprised and a battle ensues. Seeing the Amazons shocked by how guns work was quite laughable, as it reinforces the idea of "waiting until the world needs us" nonsense is completely useless.

Diana leaves the island with Chris Pine's Steven Trevor to hunt down Ares, the final living son of Zeus who she believes is the sole reason for the war going on. This is the stupidest concept I've ever seen put on screen. She spends enough time in the world to see that human beings have free will, and you can't blame all the bad things on a magical being that forced everyone to be at war. Of course, they only refer to the European nations, because why care about Africa and Asia?

The film was beautifully shot, and the action scenes were mostly well done. We don't need everybody to have a slow motion pose and attack sequence, however.

Once Ares is revealed, and Diana finally grows a brain in her stupid head, the movie shifts to be what it should have been in the first place. I'm hoping that her sudden shift in character will be explored more in Justice League, but I dread that answer. I'm telling you, Zack Snyder is trash and needs to get a new career.

Chances are, reading this review in 2024, you've already seen the movie and have formed your own opinion. It's not bad enough for me to say run the other way, but it's certainly not good. To sum up my feelings on Gal Godot as an actress: I don't think she did a bad job, but she was given horrible writing and direction.