Film: Wonder Woman

GENRE: Action, Adventrue

RATING: PG-13 for action violence
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 21 minutes

STARRING: Gal Gadot (Keeping Up with the Joneses, Fast Five)

Chris Pine (Star Trek), Danny Huston (Clash of the Titans)

DIRECTOR: Patty Jenkins (Monster. The Killing pilot)

WRITER: Allan Heinberg (The OC, Grey’s Anatomy, The Catch)

PLOT: Origin story showing how Diana helped a WWI pilot then ended the war and became Wonder Woman.   

FULL DISCLOSURE: Didn’t know much about the backstory.

STORY STUFF: A very entertaining movie. I really enjoyed the fish out of water aspects of the story. The island of women section dragged a bit but has a pretty awesome fight sequence near the end of it. I also felt the crew helping out Diana and Steve Trevor could have used a little more fleshing out. But the majority of the film was a sweet thrill ride. I thought it was better put together than Man of Steel and Batman v Superman.

ACTING STUFF: Gadot is awesome as Diana. She has intelligence, power, sass, humour and is pretty hot. Pine is adorable, fun and often exasperated. Huston always plays an entertaining bad guy. Robin Wright (House of Cards) unfortunately doesn’t have as big a role as I suspected. She rocks. Great stuff all around.

ARTISTIC STUFF: Some amazing fight sequence and special effects. There are a couple of times though that effects look so digitally CG’d it was almost laughable (Steve Trevor taking off in a plane early on is one of them). Having just come back from London, it was nice seeing it on screen.     

VERDICT: Four stars out of five

SEE IT IF: You like action, superheroes, and Gal Gadot.

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