Is the film at times loud and clunky, sappy and predictable? Sure.
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In the clever hands of Jenkins, the writer and director behind the searing serial killer portrait “Monster” (2003), “Wonder Woman” easily bests half of the recent Avengers, Captain America and Superman movies. We get our Princess Diana origin story, her moral crises, her love interest - all flung against a world-ending plot and peppered with plenty of hand-to-hand combat.
Bold, bombastic and badass, “Wonder Woman” closely adheres to the superhero genre’s staples. Created in 1941, the immortal lasso-wielding princess only had to wait 75 years. Thankfully, the end product from Patty Jenkins, the first woman to direct a major superhero film, and starring Gal Gadot as the lead, is a doozy. Despite a brief flirtation with mainstream stardom in the '70s, when Lynda Carter portrayed the crime fighting Amazon on TV, the planet’s best-known female comic book character has never been given her own movie. Or perhaps what women find touching is the weight of the following irony. It seemed that the sight of Diana Prince charging from the trenches of World War I, kicking German soldier butt, and finally facing her nemesis alone in a slugfest - in other words, saving the world - had moved my seatmate to tears.Īpparently, women crying in awe as they watch Wonder Woman fight is already a thing. My neighbor was crying, but also smiling. Perhaps her eyes were smarting from the fight scene’s explosive blasts and sonic overload, an FX-apalooza practically required of the modern superhero film. The smoke and fire had cleared after the climactic battle in "Wonder Woman." I noticed the woman beside me in the theater was dabbing her eyes. Pictures) This article is more than 5 years old. Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, waited 75 years for her big screen due.
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