Director Patty Jenkins
Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig
Rated M
Score 3/6

Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman’s next big screen adventure finds her facing an all-new foe: The Cheetah.

Okay, the popular opinion regarding Wonder Woman 1984 is that it is a crap movie. If you go by IMDB ratings apparently it is the worst rated movie in the “DCEU”. I burst out laughing when I found out that little piece of information. Is Wonder Woman 1984 the worst DC movie ever? No. Is Wonder Woman 1984 a franchise killer? No. Is Wonder Woman 1984 a bad movie? Possibly, it certainly has its problems. There are a couple of action sequences that have left me wondering ‘why did you shoot it like that?’ and I suppose that could chalked up to the fact that Jenkins has limited experience when it comes to the action genre.
The biggest problem that Wonder Woman 1984 is facing is the simple fact that for the past 20 years of the ‘comic book’ genre has been dominated by Marvel and it appears that DC is unable to produce a movie it is definitively DC, and viable cinematic alternative is exactly what was is needed.

Gail Gadot, Chris Pine and Kristen Wiig all gave decent enough performances. I will admit when Wiig was introduced on screen as Barbara Minerva my immediate reaction was ‘oh lord, she’s not going to be doing that for the entire movie is she?’ but she won me over with her performance. Why? Because the lead characters had something that is called a character’s arc (Something that is a bit of a foreign concept to the writers and directors of some of the more recent Marvel movies).
Was Pedro Pascal’s performance as Maxwell Lord a reference to Donald Trump? Maybe, there certainly is enough in the movie to be led to that. But what I really noticed about the character was he seemed to be more of a reference to the 80’s mantra ‘Greed is Good’. Also, when it comes to the motivation a case of ‘Marvel did it first’ could be argued. Now, it should be noted that perhaps things did get a little preachy towards the end, but it was good to see that Jenkins appeared to exercise a degree of restraint and chose to club the audience over the head with the movie’s message.