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, in areas I do like some of it, but it takes way too long to get there or gets bogged down in comically silly aspects which don't fit with what actually is going on. Then we come to Wonder Woman herself, who seemed to be thoroughly absent in her own movie! it takes a full 90 minutes of screen time to develop an emotion other than a blank expression with only brief explanations as to why that is, which is such a shame as we have seen how strong Gal Gadot performance is as this character. There are some aspects I do like, I think the ending is good and the whole theme of Pascals' Maxwell Lord is really intriguing ( while his character at some points can get on the unnerving side ). There are bits I also really didn't like, for instance I think there are some subliminal messages in this film which feel less " subliminal " and really rather quite forced and out of place, and as for the whole Steve Trevor, less said about that the better.

Overall: Really just a bit saddening to see a sequel to a film which did so much for this character just fall so flat, in a film which at the end of the day shouldn't have been this poor.

My rating: 4/10 ( Not great )

Contains moderate bad language and fantasy violence.

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