Against the background of previous stillborn films of the DC Cinematic Universe, this at least managed to distinguish itself pleasantly. A more or less normal script that tells a clear and beautiful story without exchanging for interfering sidequests and references, without recomposing 3-4 incompatible comics into a monster film. After "BPS" and "Suicide Squad," this movie looks ... complete. Almost. Thank you to DC for this... This is what they have done with the viewer.
But the downsides. If you turn on the brain when viewing, then questions arise:
- Hippolyta tells her daughter some nonsense. Zeus created the Amazons (which by nature are warriors) to fill people’s hearts with love. Isn't that the opposite? They established peace on earth and then rebelled against slavery. What slavery? When did they get into it? Zeus defeated Ares, but somehow died anyway. From what? After that, according to Hippolyta, peace reigned on Earth - well, except for all the wars that occurred after the time of ancient Greece. Well, the Amazons after that went underground, so that they are warriors only in training and no one's hearts are no longer filled with love, only hide and wait for death, good heroines.
- How can you swim from Themyscira (according to legend, in the Black Sea) to England in one night? On the boat. Even though both passengers were asleep. They say the boat is magical, but it is not.
- Steve has gathered people to help on the mission. One of them is an excellent sniper. What did he do in the movie? He sang once and sang once. He didn't fire a fucking shot!
- Sometimes Wonder Woman can jump a few meters by herself. But sometimes she has to be planted.
- Steve couldn't seduce Dr. Poison into cheating because he was looking at Diana. If he had succeeded, what was the plan?
- What did Diana do with Frau Royal-in-Bush, with whom she took off her ballroom dress? Killed off-screen?
- How did the general, dancing with Diana and holding her waist, not feel a sword under her dress? How come no one ever saw him? He's stuck on half his back.
- How did she change from dress to armour for the race?
Ares. It is acceptable that in the 20th century he changed methods and looks like an English gentleman with a furry paw in world politics. But in a flashback from the legendary past, he was shown with the same paradoxical appearance. This is an epic DC villain. In the scene of a superhero battle, this face is inappropriate, this actor simply cannot pronounce such pathetic phrases, fight with lightning. This mistake is called miscast.
- Ares told the heroine that she could kill him without a sword. It is so common that a movie villain will do anything to avoid winning.
- Steve's senseless self-sacrifice. It was easy to destroy the plane and save yourself. And I've seen the same thing from a guy named Steve.
And all these disadvantages would be enough to bury this film next to "BPS", but ... it somehow saved the script, revealed characters and strong scenes. And I love strong scenes, and in many ways I watch movies for them - I wait for them like a chorus in a good song. The way Diana comes out with a shield against machine guns and repels the fire, and the way she judges Dr. Poison with a tank raised in her hands - yes, it was worth watching for.
In addition, it is impossible not to compare it with the first solo album of Captain America, which was openly a childless war in the style of piu-piu, a pathetic craft without a drop of realism, in which both the hero and the villain were humiliated. "Wonder Woman" looks more serious, and this war is much more believed.
And a few words about Ares. Critics unanimously said that it should not have been shown in the flesh at all, leaving only the naive fantasy of Diana, who does not see the roots of evil in society itself. It could be a good scripting move in some other movie, but we’re talking about a DC comic book adaptation, and Ares WAS in it. You can’t just turn a canonical villain into a myth, as Mandarin once did in Iron Man 3, and fans didn’t forgive it. Therefore, the appearance of Ares was absolutely natural. However, the fact that the audience did not wait for the appearance of the main antagonist of Wonder Woman in the film Wonder Woman is a small phenomenon that suggests that the director made the viewer forget about DC and get involved in this particular plot, believe in its realism.