Wonder Woman 1984
Released: Dec 16th 2020 BBFC Rating: 12 Directed by: Patty Jenkins Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wigg, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright Taking a look back at the DCEU; there have been highs, there have been lows, and there have been your 2016's Suicide Squad's. Many would attribute ( as would I ) that the height of this series came with the 2017 hit, Wonder Woman. So surely the same character with the same director we would get another smash hit? Sadly not. WW84 seems so distant from the original in so many ways I could only come out disappointed. And look, I didn't walk into this film wanting a copy-paste of the original, but it would be nice for it to be conceivable that these were in the same universe. From the get-go it feels like these two films are completely different animals, with this one leaning way too heavily into the happy-go-lucky feeling, especially by the end of the film with some of the events that are thrown up. I think the story suffers the same problem,...