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*SPOILERS AHEAD* *SPOILERS AHEAD*I finally got the chance to see wonder woman and overall it was a good movie. I really enjoyed it and for an origin movie, which are always the toughest to pull off since there is so much to tell in a short time, this movie did as good a job as the rest but all throughout I kept seeing massive story issues. So my review here isn’t about gal’s acting, she was spot on. She made a perfect Diana Prince and was the perfect modernization of the Diana/Wonder Woman character. The core story was great as well and the effects were above par. My issues are all with the storytelling /writing and the lack of the big picture approach.These are in the order of movie progression.*SPOILERS AHEAD*Within the first 30 minutes Hippolyta the queen of the amazons tells Diana that “We are the bridge to a greater understanding between all men”, and later states, “it is our sacred duty to defend the world”. So why then did they all retreat from the world and refuse to step outside it? Why did they give up on “the world of men”? Seems a bit irresponsible if their sacred duty is to be both a bridge of greater understanding AND protectors.Diana goes to steal the God killer sword. She leaps across the chasm and manages to hold onto a small outcropping in the wall, it breaks and as she is falling puts her fist into the wall thus stopping her fall. It is here she discovers her super strength. THIS is the moment she discovers it? Her entire life she never had an occasion to lift, pull, push, hit or fight beyond her normal strength? I found that hard to believe. We all have had moments throughout our lives, especially as kids, in which we needed more strength then we had. It was a great scene but using it to show us her ‘discovery’ just didn’t seem logical. She would have discovered her super strength loooong before then.43 minutes in she and Steve talk of sex and marriage. Steve stammers and stutters like an idiot and gives an obvious 2017 explanation of marriage when back then it was more valued and important than it is today. His stammering and “duh” attitude didn’t seem to fit the character or the reality of the time in which the movie was set. Diana then goes on to say she had read all 12 volumes of Clio’s treatises on bodily pleasure and that men were only good for procreation not pleasure. The male bashing continues….Who is the fake Aries and why does he need blue gas to be super? This is never explained or if it was it was easy to miss.Diana meets Steve’s secretary and Diana asks what a secretary is. The reply is I go where he tells me and do what he tells me. THAT is the definition she gives to someone she just met and right in front of her boss!? Yet another 2017 definition worded to, once again, attack men. It doesn’t fit the time frame of the movie and serves a different purpose which is the underlining theme of the movie: Men = bad.They re-do the ally scene from superman the movie. Of course they do this. Poor Steve, he, a trained fighter can only manage to get one guy down while Diana saves his life. The scene served no purpose other than to emasculate Steve. One other issue with this scene, there were at least 5 guys in that ally and Diana questions ONE, he dies and they leave!?! Why not question the other 4 guys there?Faced with the understanding of what Dr. Poison’s gas can do and that it will be unleashed on the front within days, all of the male leaders quickly, readily and with little thought agree to do nothing at all and in regards to all of the soldiers that will die from it say, “that’s what men do”. Sooooo these leaders have no soul and don’t care at all? They have no sense of urgency in regards to the proof right in front of them that an unstoppable weapon is about to be released on their own men!? Instead it’s - who cares, We won the war!! This whole reaction scene was so beyond ridiculous and totally unbelievable. The military WOULD have cared and WOULD have done something BUT it was necessary to vilify these evil men in order for Diana to then lecture them all on the value of life. Faced with the proof of an unstoppable poison that will be used soon the men choose to do nothing……..This whole scene could have been written much better and been much more believable. As it is it is just ridiculous.1:13:49 when Diana melts down in “no man’s land”. Steve tries to explain how powerless they are to stop the killing and destruction while Diana yells at him. This scene is all about setting up Diana’s first big anti-war action scene and it was painfully obvious it was coming - all the slow-mo, and super hero strut onto the battle field. All the cliché stuff men’s action movies get ripped for was taking place here too. The scene was good overall but it could have been written much better. It seemed too generic and typical of an action scene imo.Diana’s run across the battlefield. So every single German soldier there tried to shoot her head/upper torso only? Diana held her shield up and, amid all of the gun fire every shot hits her shield and not her mid-section or legs which were painfully exposed? I had issues like this with Capt. America movies as well.Diana jumps into the room full of German soldiers. A great close quarters fight, reminiscent of Batman’s in BvS, but I noticed something right off the bat, how is Diana able to use her wrist cuffs to block bullets as well as she did? She was never trained to as they didn’t have bullets on her island and I’m sure they didn’t throw rocks at her to train her to block objects heading at her yet she blocked all those bullets in close quarters, with ease yet no training. Again, we know she can do it but the movie never explains HOW she was able to do it. “Oh she’s a Goddess so she just can” I hope wasn’t the explanation the writers had in their heads when they wrote this scene. I had a similar issue in the remake of Clash of the Titans. Perseus was able to fight like a pro with ZERO training simply because he was part God. Weak. This is an origin story. A training scene or at least an explanation of ‘how’ was needed earlier in the movie. Just being able to so stuff’ because’ is poor storytelling and soooo many other movies do this as well.MASSIVE overuse of slow-mo by this point and so much more is still to come……….Diana is standing in the now gassed village upset that she couldn’t save. More ‘world of men’ swipes and by now the movie is getting annoyingly preachy about it.Just who the heck is this fake aries and why the blue gas? Will they ever tell us?1:46:10 Diana has killed fake aries though she doesn’t know he was a fake and she says, “why are they (the soldiers) still fighting?” Diana believed that Killing aries would stop the war. To this Steve, who is flustered, confused and stammering for no reason at all, replies, “I don’t know, maybe it is who they are?”……. Maybe?..... Maybe it is who they are!? Steve, who is a trained fighter, military soldier and spy would know all about human nature. As a spy he would have to be a master of human nature as he would be manipulating it as a spy would do. So why is he so clueless here? Steve’s confused, clueless, childlike attempt to explain human nature is both unrealistic to the character and is plain ridiculous.1:47:45. The look on Diana’s face. Welcome to the real world, Diana. Hiding on an island and abandoning your sacred duty brought about all of this. That is what I thought when they showed her look because of Hippolyta’s talk early in the movie about sacred duty. Did the writers of this movie even try to see big picture or just think scene by scene?Diana states to Steve that mommy was right; the world doesn’t deserve our help. Please refer to my first point above about the whole sacred duty speech. Perhaps if the Amazons didn’t run away and hide but instead fulfilled their sacred duty there would be no war. So in actuality WW1 was the amazon’s fault. This is what I mean by bad writing. Big ol’ plot holes and story flaws like this one.Diana’s fight with the real Aries. Near the end when Diana chooses not to kill Dr. Poison and Aries leaps at Diana, Aries is also force throwing a barrage of objects at Diana as well yet as they approach her they disintegrate …..how are they doing that? How is Diana able to make them disintegrate? Yet another ability never explained. I liked that ability but wanted to know how she was developed it. To just give powers randomly in a movie with no explanation is poor storytelling imo and many, many other movies are guilty of this as well.At the end- present day when Diana is wrapping up the movie via narration. In Batman v. Superman Diana had no interest in helping man and was pretty bitter towards them. Bruce Wayne tells her that “men are still good”, meaning Diana had to be talked into helping out yet at the end of this movie, which takes place AFTER BvS, she says she decided to stay and fight because of love....... Sooooo what reason was it?Again this is not an attack on wonder woman at all. I was happy to see her in BvS, I LOVED how they modernized her and was beyond grateful they didn’t choose an actress based on breast size to play the part which would have been a tremendous insult to all viewers and fans and would have done the character a great dis-service. They made the right choice in Gal Gadot and long may she reign as Wonder Woman. I hope to see many more WW movies in the years to come. My issues here are with the storytelling and the over use of ‘it’s all man’s fault’. That message was stated clearly in the beginning and we got it loud and clear but to run it throughout the movie took away from it and made it more about emasculation and blame imo. This also isn’t about ruining this movie either but when I see this much jagged storytelling/ writing, as I did also in the movie The Dark Knight, I find it more insulting as a viewer that the writers didn’t bother to think it thorough and craft a more consistent, plot-hole free story but instead hoped we are too blind or wouldn't notice their lack of detail.

I openly admit that when I first heard Gal Gadot got cast as Wonder Woman, I was a bit disappointed. While she definitely has the looks for the role, I really hadn't seen any movies from her that gave me confidence that she could bring some legitimate depth to the character. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong and boy was I wrong on this one, BIG TIME!! This is without question DC's best DCEU film to date and that largely had to do with the acting performance Gadot gave. By the time the credits rolled, I had a completely new level of respect for Gadots acting ability, not to mention her physical attributes and abilities. Gadot gives an incredibly nuanced performance as Wonder Woman. In fact, IMO this is the best female performance to date in a super hero film and that is really a big compliment as I think both Scarlett Johansson and Elizabeth Olsen give great performances as Black Widow and Scarlet Witch.While every aspect of this film was outstanding, it was ultimately Gadot's performance that really put it over the top for me. In partiular, her facial expressions were just fantastic all throughout this film. Some great examples include the scene where she first meets Chris Pine's character, Steve Trevor, after dragging him out of the water, the scene where she charges the machine gun nest and deflects the bullet fire with her armguards, the look she gives the final solider she shield bashed out the window, the scene where she see's snow for the first time, and the last moments of the final fight scene where she is watching the lighting bounce around her armguards without hurting her. I really had no idea that Gadot has this level of nuance in her acting ability. After seeing this film, I would go as far as saying Gadot was literally born to play this role as she really does an exceptional job at bringing Wonder Woman to life on the big screen. I just have a completely new level of respect for Gadot. She nailed this role just as well as Robert Downey Jr nailed Iron Man and Chris Evans nailed Captain America.Thankfully, Gadot's amazing performance is backed up with the best script we have seen to date with the DCEU, an absolutely amazing directing job by Patty Jenkins, a beautiful job by the director of photography, and a supporting cast that was absolutely perfect. In particular, I really loved Connie Nielsen's performance as Hippolyta and Robin Wright's performance as Antiope. There really are no negative aspects of this film. The overall tone of the film is just a huge step forward from the far too serious tone that previous DCEU films have had, which is actually my biggest issue with the previous DCEU movies we have seen to date. It just does a great job balancing the more serious scenes and action scenes with the more comedic moments and more light hearted character driven moments. Again, this is EASILY DC's best DCEU film to date in this regard. Had DC stuck with the more serious tone that we have seen with previous films, I don't think this film would have been anywhere near as good as it was. I really hope that the overall tone that this film has will be the kind of tone DC aims for with all of their future DCEU films. I don't have a problem with superhero films wanting to take things more seriously, but you really do need at least some comedic moments and more light hearted character driven scenes to break up all the action scenes and more serious exposition scenes.And I have to say that setting this film during World War I was just a briliant move. Were so used to seeing super hero's with modern settings that the contrast of Wonder Woman with a WWI battlefield made for some exceptional scenes and it just offered the perfect backdrop for the film. The glass plate picture that was taken by the large format photographer after they freed the town, and was sent to Diana in the beginning of the film by Bruce Wayne, is just a perfect example of that beautiful contrast. Seeing Wonder Woman's shiny armor and sword and shield while she's climbing a rickety wooden ladder out of the trench during that machine gun nest scene was just a truly spectacular scene.Honestly, I could go on and on and on as there were so many amazing aspects of this film. On top of the aspects I have already touched on you also had beautiful set design, brilliant costume design (especially with Wonder Woman's outfit and the Amazon's armor), a great soundtrack, amazing action choreography, and just beautiful lighting and attention to detail. This will go on to become one of the all time great super hero films and I am really looking forward to the sequel, especially since Patty Jenkins is coming back to direct again.Bottom line - DC absolutely knocked this one out of the park and it ultimately gave the DCEU a big boost and a much needed change in overall tonality. Again, I sincerely hope this is the kind of tonality we can expect from DC in the future. IMO, DC has a much stronger roster of characters than Marvel so its really a shame that DC has struggled to find its footing with the DCEU. Thankfully there was no struggling with Wonder Woman. This is just an exceptional super hero film from start to finish. Its hard to believe it took this long for Wonder Woman to finally get a solo film, but DC made sure the wait was well worth it. Gadot really was born to play this role. Just an absolutely brilliant super hero film.5 Stars!!!

Contrary to some reviews who say it’s a Feminist Woke movie, it’s not. If anything WW is pro-men or more accurately pro-mankind. The villain had to be a Brit and a man too; but her love interest is an American – go figure. Brill, brill and brill! The final battle is just awesome and the mythological backbone (based on Greek Mythology) is philosophically stimulating. I’m in love. Worth buying in Blu-ray.

Ever since I saw the first trailer I knew this film would be great in so many ways. Wonder Woman is a breath of fresh air in the already vast comicbook movie market it really is truly unique and one of a kind not because its a female led superhero film but because of Patty Jenkins and her great direction. Gal Gadot shines as Wonder Woman and after seeing her in her first feature length film as Diana/Wonder Woman you'll have a hard time imaging anyone else in the role.

Great movie good story good action and stays at its certification which will entertain adults a million times better than homecoming.Story basically starts with wonder woman on her island and affter a plane crashes through the shield we enter into Wonder woman up against Gaermans and biochemists and a devil type character all brilliantly played/Love it.

the quality of the blu-ray is everything you want in a film like this, and the film is brilliant.Being a fan of Wonder woman the first time round i wasnt convinced that anyone could replace Linda carter, but i have to say how wrong i was.This film just blew me away.

Thanks for my Wonder Woman 2D/3D Blu-ray Steelbook. This, I think of the Steels released for this film is the best of the lot. Too bad I had to order outside the country, however, I'm thankful of the availability and cooperation of the seller. Looks extremely great in hand, as photos do not do it justice.