Not bad, I liked it enough, it had a great start and some lovely scenes, but it wasn’t what I had hoped, but I guess it’s useless hoping for something knowing that in our times I’ll never get it. So, I loved the beginning, enjoyed the middle, was rather disappointed by the end.
The beginning was beautiful, I liked a lot the child playing Diana, and then all the Amazons together. Diana is their Queen Ippolita’s daughter; she’s told that she was born from clay, that Zeus created her. Ippolita tells her that Zeus created humanity good , that Ares got jealous and tried to corrupt mankind, that in the following war Ares killed all the Gods until he was injured and forced to retreat. The Amazons train to be prepared for his return, but Ippolita’s wish is not to find him and kill him but to hide her daughter as long as she can.
When Diana sees a plain crashing she saves the life of the pilot, Steve (Chris Pine), and learns that there is a big war going on and millions of people dying.
When the Nazis find Steve on the island, they attack. The amazons fight and win but many of them die because they don’t have firearms like the others. To protect Diana’s life Antiope (Robin Wright) puts herself in front of her and dies. I had big tears in my eyes when she got shot. She was the best.
Diana is sure that it’s all Ares’ doing and that it is their duty to find him and stop him. Ippolita refuses to get involved in the men’s war, but Diana goes anyway. (Bit on a nonsense though. She most of all wished to keep her safe, and then she let her go alone? Not telling her the truth - not a big revelation but still - because that would make it easier for him to find her, when it’s Diana herself that is determined to find him?? I think all the amazons should have joined her fight)
Diana and Steve go to London, and she sees a world that is strange to her. Women wearing long dresses that she finds very unsuitable for combat, and men more worried about a woman entering their room than about soldiers dying because ‘that’s what soldiers are for’. She shouts that a general should lead his warriors and that he should be ashamed of himself. Good.
She follows Steve and three other men on their way to find a dangerous man, General Ludendorff, to stop him from releasing a deadly gas. She helps to free a village, because her armor protects her against bullets and she’s much stronger than men.
Knowing where they’ll be able to find Ludendorff, Diana steals a woman’s dress to infiltrate the party (nice scene when she walked in front of the woman to see that they were of the same height, and stood at her side to check that they were of the same built :-p).
She’d want to kill Ludendorff right there but Steve stops her saying that they need to find the gas first. Unfortunately right after that, the general releases the gas in the village she had saved and everybody dies. She’s very upset, she tells Steve that Ares corrupted him too, and she goes alone to stop him.
She finds Ludendorff and fights him and kills him with her ‘Godkiller’ sword, but nothing changes. She then meets the real Ares, revealing himself for what he really is. Sir Patrick who helped them in London wanted her to see what humanity really is, that the war is actually men’s fault. She doesn’t side with him of course, and fights him. Ares tells her that she is the daughter of Zeus (how can that be shocking? Only because Dad left her? Not unsual, specially in this case, that’s actually what Zeus did, constantly). Her sword breaks against him, and he tells her that she’s the Godkiller herself, as the daughter of Zeus and Ippolita.
She’s desperate when Steve dies. He couldn’t beat Ares of course, but he could save lots and lots of lives by getting rid of the gas, and he did, sacrificing himself. Ares tries to direct her pain towards humans but in Steve she saw that there are good men, and she chooses love and fights Ares off and wins.
The battle scenes were very cool and I liked her remarks on generals and dresses, but all that kind of clashes with the heels she wears in combat :-/
And of course I could have done without the love story honestly. Why was it necessary to have her fall in love and sleep with the first man she ever saw in her entire life? What’s all this about fighting for love? She used to fight to save lives, to help people, to do the right thing… now it seems she only keeps doing it because she fell in love???
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